Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Congratulations to the member on moving his bill forward, stickhandling it through the House and to committee. As the member knows, I didn't immediately buy into support for this bill when I spoke in the House some weeks ago. It doesn't mean I don't support firm provisions in the Criminal Code for dealing with children.
Perhaps there are a lot of Criminal Code offences for which one might rhetorically engage in a discussion and actually get people feeling that we might as well just make every sentence a maximum of life imprisonment and let the judges decide what the real penalty should be, because we're just dealing with maximum penalties in this case.
In his remarks, he has made ample reference to some real-life scenarios, other Criminal Code sections. Would the member concede that the luring offence in the code is simply a communicating offence in the sense that—not that any offence is simple—it doesn't involve any of the other criminal actions that the code already criminalizes, such as kidnapping, abduction, sexual touching, sexual assault in all its forms, and all other assaults and any other number of criminal actions that might follow a communicating offence? Does he concede that what this particular section of the Criminal Code that he's trying to amend does is criminalize the communication for the purposes of what I would call a sexual seduction?