Thank you very much.
I have a question for Mr. Paradis and another one for Mr. Oscapella.
The Bloc Québécois is totally against this bill. We will vote against it. For the last few years, we have maintained that it's illogical to demand minimum sentences. I wouldn't have hoped, even in my wildest dreams, to hear evidence as convincing as yours, Mr. Paradis. I hope that you will leave a written submission with us and that the clerk will have it quickly translated. We will circulate it widely.
I would like to hear some more from you. You have been a judge. You are not a member of the Parti québécois and you are not a great supporter of the Bloc either: you are a magistrate and you have practised law. I would very much like you to enlighten some of our friends here, in this room, who stick to a somewhat dogmatic logic and refuse to acknowledge reality.
You have told us that minimum sentences don't discourage people. Please expand on this idea and the fact that the volume of drug offences exceeds the volume of firearm offences, and so on.
I would then ask you to leave me some time to put a question to Mr. Oscapella.