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This oral questions period covered two justice topics. A Liberal member asked about protecting people from coercive and controlling behaviour by intimate partners, and a minister replied that a new colleague’s advocacy had helped bring forward reforms making coercive control an offence so the law can intervene before abuse becomes fatal. A Conservative member raised the opioid crisis, citing the number of lives lost last year, and asked the Liberals to support the Conservatives’ bill for harsher penalties for those who produce and traffic fentanyl. The minister replied that the government intends to keep dangerous people behind bars while also working to combat the opioid crisis and expressed a willingness to work with all parties on community safety.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .

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Costas Menegakis

Conservative
“Thousands of Canadians die from opioids each year. We want harsher punishments for people who make and sell fentanyl. I want the Liberals to support our bill to do that.”
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Mr. Speaker, last year we lost 5,630 Canadians to the opioid crisis. That is 15 lives lost every day. Emmy Liu, 14 years old, was one of the increasingly alarming number of young Canadians whose lives were stolen by the fentanyl traffickers. These criminals who profit from producing and trafficking opioids should face serious consequences. That is why Conservatives introduced Bill C-289 to strengthen penalties for these criminals. Emmy’s legacy could be more than a tragedy. After the decade of Liberal rule that ushered in the opioid crisis, will the Liberals stop grandstanding and deliver results by supporting this bill?

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