Rick Hansen  Mr. Speaker, yesterday marked the kickoff of the 25th Anniversary Relay in honour of the Rick Hansen Man in Motion World Tour. Some 7,000 participants will retrace the Canadian portion of the gruelling journey completed 25 years ago by an extraordinary man who wanted to make the world a better place, inspire Canadians and help people with spinal cord injuries.

Aboriginal Affairs  Mr. Speaker, in Canada, thousands of people commit suicide each year, and far too many of them are young people between the ages of 15 and 24. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people in this age group. This already alarming suicide rate among young people is seven times higher among aboriginal and homosexual youth.

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his question. I would also like to commend the excellent work he is doing with his private member's bill on this issue and thank him for all his hard work in this area. I am honoured to say that my riding has an organization called Les Déprimés Anonymes, or Depression Anonymous.

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for raising the issue of how this is being addressed in Quebec. We are very proud of what we are accomplishing in Quebec with regard to suicide prevention and mental health. There is still a lot of work to be done but, as with the focus we put on the rehabilitation of criminals rather than on repression, Quebec is often somewhat on the leading edge with what it is doing.

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Charlottetown. When I was in grade 11 at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, I was the coach of the grade 10 trivia team. Some members were young geniuses, but not really nerds in the traditional sense of the word, no more than any of the other students.

Users' Rights Week  Mr. Speaker, this is the first Quebec health and social services network users' rights week, organized by the Regroupement provincial des comités des usagers. This promotional tool serves to inform users of their rights and to showcase the work being done within health and social services institutions.

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, after spending two very difficult years in Albania, Arjan Tabaj and his family are finally back in Canada. The Federal Court ruled that this family had been deported without justification. Today another family is being separated by this government. Ms. Paola Ortiz came to Canada to escape a life of physical abuse.

Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act  Mr. Speaker, I would ask the parliamentary secretary to look through the bill again to see that there is very little in it to address human smugglers. We would love to be able to crack down on human smugglers; we would love it if this bill were able to go after human smugglers.

Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for her question. This is part of the Conservative tough on crime ideology, as even Mr. Duceppe used to call it. The Conservatives are trying to find ways to convince people that they are really tough on crime, as we saw today with their omnibus crime bill that imposes obviously harsh measures, even though it will have no positive effect on a country in which the crime rate is already going down.

Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act  This country was built on people seeking better lives for themselves and their families, trying to build their futures. Our ancestors, if they are not first nations, came from all around the world trying to build a better life here in this country. To tell someone once that he or she has been accepted as a refugee, or come from a failed state no longer able to protect them from persecution or death and that they can stay in Canada and start building a life, but that we may send him or her back in a few years if things get better, that uncertainty is not the way we build a strong country.

Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act  First, this bill is illegal. Second, this bill is ineffective. Third, this bill—

Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act  Mr. Speaker, as I was saying, this bill is illegal, is ineffective and fundamentally is ideologically driven. Why is this bill illegal? Under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms we have the right not to be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned. In a Supreme Court judgment that came down a few years ago, 120 days was put as the outside limit beyond which someone could not be imprisoned without recourse to justice.

Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act  Mr. Speaker, I had the honour of being the official opposition critic for immigration and citizenship when this bill was introduced for the first time as Bill C-49. It was a very bad bill at the time, and I am very disappointed to see that the government is putting it forward again in the same form, now called Bill C-4.

Prostate Cancer  Mr. Speaker, this week is Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, and I would like to take the time to mention the 25,000 men who will be diagnosed in 2011 as well as the 4,000 of them that we could lose to this disease. I think about the families and friends of those who will have to face this immense challenge.

Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act  Mr. Speaker, given the experience of the member for Toronto Centre in Sri Lanka and his exposure to the issue, I would like to hear the member respond to the declarations by the Conservative government that this will be a deterrent, that punitive measures on refugees will be enough to keep people from fleeing for their lives and seeking asylum in other countries.