Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I just want to support this motion. We tackled the issue of human smuggling before in the study that we did on asylum seekers at Roxham Road. In that study, Conservative members put forward some strong recommendations to strengthen our anti-trafficking laws. This motion gets right at the heart of that, too, because we have problems in our country with the trafficking of people, with the smuggling of people, and, of course, we know that when trafficked people are brought into our country, they often end up doing things that are illegal. They often end up in things like prostitution.
These are things that exploit people. These are ways that people are exploited by the traffickers. It's bad for everybody. It's bad for our country, and it's certainly bad for the people who are involved, oftentimes without their consent. It's not something they sought to do. It's something they ended up in because they're exploited by cartels, by organized crime and things like that. That's exactly what this article is referring to.
We all recognize that crime in our country has increased significantly. Crime is also partly driven by some of the relaxations that the Liberals have done in terms of the laws, in terms of house arrest, for example, in terms of the relaxation of jail time requirements on some very critical crimes—crimes with firearms, gang crimes. Oftentimes, now, these kinds of criminals, rather than being put in jail, are actually released on bail. It can happen over and over again that a criminal commits a crime, gets arrested, and then, after doing the paperwork at the police station, is just released back out into the population.
Unfortunately, a growing number of these criminals reoffend. They come back. They're arrested again for the next crime. It's the same process. They do their paperwork, and out they go. We have this revolving door of criminality. In the worst case, sometimes there's a house arrest. Well, house arrest isn't much of a penalty either.
What's happened in our culture now, because of these changes made by the Liberal government in terms of the penalties for crimes, is that there's less of a disincentive to commit these crimes, so a person who's looking at—