Madam, these are people who have committed crimes. These are people who, in general, are assessed and determined to be psychopaths and whose risk of reoffending is at 100%. These are the people that we want to keep behind bars.
The principles of philosophical rights and of the Charter are all fine and dandy, but it nevertheless remains that they are also aimed at protecting citizens. I do not want to expend my energy protecting dangerous criminals who could not care less about the lives of their fellow citizens. These are predators that we set free among the public. I want to do my utmost to keep these people in prison.
If these people, after having committed a violent crime, get therapy and try to better themselves, heal themselves, then that is something different. However, when these people play the system, do not even participate in the therapy programs, do their time and then cannot even be kept in prison, it is revolting for citizens.
I understand the principles and I am in full agreement with them. This will not affect someone who has made a mistake, who has gone through hard times such that he or she has committed a crime. We are talking about three convictions, in other words about a person who has been three times convicted of a violent crime. This is serious. And we are not talking about three crimes, but perhaps three series of crimes.