It's probably worth pointing out, Minister, that the success of the Toronto police force and other police forces in response to the violence of the last year or two...that progress was made with the existing laws, not the new laws. The police are actually doing very well working with the laws that exist.
That's not to say we can't make changes in these laws, and I can't imagine there would be many Canadians who wouldn't want to have public safety improvements by amendments to the Criminal Code and changes in sentencing. So this committee and the House will look at this bill fairly.
I know my party included an increase in the number of mandatory minimums in the Criminal Code in the last election campaign. I guess the point is that now the Conservatives are in government and they're the ones who have introduced the bill, it is the bill that will have to be tested here.