Discussion · Government Orders
Kelly DeRidder Conservative
“We need to keep people safe and protect victims of crime. If this bill is meant to do that, I want to know why the government is making mandatory minimum prison sentences optional.”
“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, 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?