Discussion · Government Orders
Blaine Calkins Conservative
“This bill says it brings back mandatory prison sentences, but it still leaves them optional. That makes them useless.”
“Mr. Speaker, with regard to the Liberals’ bill, where they say they are putting back mandatory minimum sentences, but they have this safeguard or whatever they want to call it where it is actually optional, I want to ask my colleague, the member for Bow River, is that not akin to putting seat belts in vehicles and then never requiring anybody to use them?”
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to the Liberals’ bill, where they say they are putting back mandatory minimum sentences, but they have this safeguard or whatever they want to call it where it is actually optional, I want to ask my colleague, the member for Bow River, is that not akin to putting seat belts in vehicles and then never requiring anybody to use them?