Just going back to the point of crime, we've seen Stats Canada data that shows violent crime has increased by 50%. Homicides are up 28%. Sexual assaults are up 75%, and gang murders have nearly doubled. When I'm back in my community and when I'm talking to small business owners, as I mentioned, this is a huge issue.

We know that auto theft is up 46%. Actually, we know that the justice minister's own car has been stolen three times. Extortion is up 357%. That is unbelievable. This is really happening because the government has made things easier for gangsters and for extortionists, really, to get out of jail and to reoffend a lot easier.

We know there have been a number of people who have gotten out on bail. Unfortunately, we continually see headlines where there are people out on bail and they're reoffending and creating really serious issues in communities and committing really serious crimes. We see it continually, and it's across the country. A lot of it does have to do with two pieces of legislation that were changed by the government. One amended the bail system, and another one removed minimum sentences from many very serious crimes, for example gun smuggling, drug trafficking and even car thefts. We've seen human trafficking numbers increase as well. Those numbers just came out, I believe, over the last week or so.

We see a lot of these increases in crime happening in many different categories, and it's affecting people's lives. It is a result of policies and legislation from this current government. Once a government has been in power for a while, you see the results of its policies and legislation play out. It has now been nine years of the current government, and you can see the results of its various policies and legislation, whether it's on the economic side or whether we're talking about the social side, the criminal justice side and crime. We're seeing the results of its various policies and legislation.

We know that there have been increases in random attacks of violence, very serious attacks, in broad daylight, that have affected families. We've seen this, in particular in British Columbia, play out quite a bit. Of course, it has made it worse because of the drug decriminalization that the federal government approved of by request of the NDP provincial government. Shortly afterwards, right after it approved of that, we started seeing open drug use in parks and playgrounds. I started talking about it. Many of my colleagues started talking about it. I remember one of the first times I asked about it in the House of Commons, I was shut down. I had to ask my question three times because people were outraged. Well, guess what? It was only nine months later that the provincial government asked to amend that policy, and the federal government finally did, after a lot of pressure.

This is what we've seen, Mr. Chair, play out over the last while.

We're at one o'clock. I believe we're adjourning at one o'clock. Is that right, Mr. Chair?

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bobby Morrissey

Is that what you wish? Do you move to adjourn?

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Conservative

Tracy Gray Conservative Kelowna—Lake Country, BC

I believe we can adjourn.

It's one o'clock. I'm sure we all have other commitments.

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