Thank you. I'm glad you mentioned it, because that's certainly what I hear, that these are in fact serious offences.
I want to look also at the work that MADD Canada has been doing. I know there's been consultation with victims groups and with other interest groups. I received this press release from MADD Canada's national president. She says: “We strongly believe that a sentence should reflect the severity of the crime. In the case of violent crimes where a person has been killed or seriously injured, conditional sentences such as house arrest and community service are totally inadequate. When a person drinks, drives, and kills or seriously injures another person, that person should have to do jail time.” It goes on to say, “Our courts have to catch up with the public's sense of justice in what is both fair and effective sentencing”, and the national president calls on parliamentarians to pass the legislation. “We would like to see Bill C-9 out of committee and back into the House as expeditiously as possible.”
Can you comment, Minister, in the time you have remaining a bit on the concerns that MADD Canada has and on their support for this piece of legislation and what that means?