I want to thank all of you for meeting with us this afternoon. Your presentations were quite impressive.
Ms. Campbell, I have a question for you, but I want to make a comment first.
When you hear the word “pedophile”, it is usually people with mental health problems, as Ms. Dawson said, who come to mind. You can find actors, journalists, teachers and hockey coaches who have taken advantage of children. I am talking about cases I have heard about, cases we have all heard about, cases we will hear about in the future.
Right now, in Quebec, there are incest cases under way. An 18-month-old child was the victim of incest. That is one case going on right now. There are child pornography cases involving children's television actors.
I am from Quebec. Don't think we are all the same. We can still see a difference.
This is what I am getting at. You have seen the bill. It seeks to increase what are known as mandatory minimum penalties (MMPs) with respect to incest, bestiality, Internet luring, exposure, sexual assault against a person under 16 years of age, sexual assault with a weapon against a person under 16 years of age—we are still talking about children here, according to the code—and aggravated sexual assault against a person under 16 years of age.
When you look at these crimes, do you think it makes sense to increase or impose mandatory prison sentences in these cases? For the most part, we are talking about incest cases, the most common type.
Do you think we are on the right track? You were a victim, and as such, you know what goes on. Do you think we are doing the right thing by increasing prison sentences in these kinds of cases?