Thank you.
I think sometimes, too, it is important to say “policies”. I think sometimes there are policies that make people feel unheard or unseen. I'm not excusing it.
Listen, I'm on the same end. I have pressed criminal charges against people who have threatened to kill me as well, but to your point, if people don't feel heard, I think that is a piece of the puzzle. Ms. Rempel Garner touched on this greatly and I would suggest that recommendation.
The biggest thing I am told is nobody answers a question in question period. You have the worst food insecurity in history, you have housing, you have a mental health crisis, you have suicide rates and you have all of these things, and I don't justify people's hateful behaviour, but there's always a reason somebody is doing what they are doing.
On a bigger scale than when we look at raising our children and telling them, “You can't say that to somebody's face, so don't say it online,” and when we're making these recommendations, I think it is great to go back to the criminal piece of it.
One of the things that has come up a lot in my work is the Victims Bill of Rights. A lot of people feel that criminals have more rights in this country than victims. In 2020, there was an ask by the Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime for a parliamentary review of the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights citing the top four issues that needed to be addressed, and it has never been addressed. It has never happened.
I guess my question to you is twofold. Where do you see that? Should that be re-examined? Would you suggest something like that as well?