I wouldn't want to ask questions about this horrible bill either.
In the first order, the only people we're coming down hard on are the people who are negligent and wildly out of compliance. That's the only thing that Vanessa's Law does. If there's anybody in New Brunswick who is being come down hard on, it's because they're wickedly negligent. That's what we're dealing with here.
With respect to the policies you talked about on crime, Newt Gingrich proposed the same approach on crime that you're talking about. He called it the greatest disaster of his career. Every place where it's been tried, it's been an abject and total failure.
I will stick to science. I will stick to data. I will stick to evidence. I will not follow approaches that sound good for a slogan but have no basis in evidentiary truth.