Don't be so harsh, you know I am a sensitive man.
I heard that your officials had advised you against tabling such a bill. You were told that there wasn't much of a relationship between stricter sentences with less access to conditional sentences and the goal you seek.
So, would you be a generous man — and I know that you are in your heart of hearts — and give us the briefing notes that your officials drafted, so that we could best make decisions based on solid evidence?
You are on the slippery slope of ideology, and you know this very well. You introduce this bill, but provide no solid data to support it. You are not even able to tell us what the rate of recidivism is for people who received conditional sentences. I look forward to hearing what your senior officials have to tell us on Thursday.
We are serious people, you and I, we like politics and Parliament, but in order to make decisions...