Let me finish then by talking about security in terms of the impact minimum sentencing will have on those who have grown up in Canada who might find themselves in situations, often because of petty crime, where because of the sentence that has been handed down, they may be seen as someone who should be removed from Canada.
That is certainly a concern for us for people who are by all intents and purposes Canadian. They've grown up here. They have very little, if any, attachment to another country, and for whatever reason they have not become a Canadian citizen. There are many reasons for this, including family breakdown, and the fact that some children become wards of the state. Unfortunately, it is only now that many of our provincial organizations are starting to pay attention to immigration status and issues of citizenship, whereby many of these people, in particular, young men from racialized communities, and in our case young black men, are finding themselves headed toward deportation to countries where they have no connections because they are deemed to be a security risk. This certainly is something the committee should be taking into account when looking at security measures. We need to ensure we are not punishing everyone because we were trying to secure our borders, and those who for all intents and purposes should be Canadians are being expelled from our country.