“Mr. Speaker, I completely agree that we need to keep our communities safe and to protect victims of any sort of violence and criminality in Canada, so I am going to ask a very simple question: If this is the true intent of the bill, why would the Liberals make mandatory minimum penalties optional?”
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 33 wordsthere is no reasonable way that the bill can be interpreted as making mandatory minimums optional.What the bill would do is prevent courts from striking down minimum mandatory sentences based on hypotheticals.1Reasoning · 77 wordsThis should be exactly the type of bill Conservatives would support.Conservatives have railed against what the courts have done to strike down minimum mandatory sentences based on hypotheticals.I refer to the Senneville decision last year.2This bill would restore minimum mandatory sentences and prevent courts from doing what was done in Senneville, by allowing courts to assess only the individual before them and not to strike down the entire category based on one hypothetical situation.3The ask · 8 wordsThe hon. member should read the bill again.
