Minister, it is quite remarkable for you to sit there and tell that to Canadians, who are using food banks at record-high numbers. This is the highest increase in child poverty in history, with children living in homeless shelters. For you to be so smug and say that everything is great is quite insulting to families.
Moving on, Terri-Lynne McClintic, who abducted and then assisted her boyfriend in the sexually motivated killing of eight-year-old Tori Stafford, has been allowed to be in the presence of children through a mother-child program at a women's federal penitentiary. Also, Tara Desousa, once Adam Laboucan, who sexually assaulted a baby in 1997 and became the youngest dangerous offender in history, now lives with mothers and children in a B.C. jail.
Are you bringing this up to your ministers? Are you advocating that sex offenders and child killers not have access to children in federal prisons?