Thank you very much for that, Mr. Dechert. Thank you for your contribution to the criminal justice agenda of this country. It's certainly very much appreciated.
Obviously, anything that derails any of these bills or slows them down doesn't have my support. I was candid with people. There were people, for instance, over the Christmas break asking me why the bill getting rid of the faint hope clause wasn't finally the law of this country. I had to tell them. I said, among the other things that Liberals didn't like, they didn't like the title, if you can imagine. But I said this is what we're dealing with.
I think most people who follow this understand the challenges we have. I guess my point on this, on all of these pieces of legislation to better protect children, is that it is a worthwhile objective of everybody, regardless of whether this is a minority Parliament. I know, people have said to me, this is a minority Parliament. Again, I always say that's no excuse not to stand up for victims or law-abiding Canadians of this country.
So I'm asking your committee to do everything you can to expedite these things.
This is better for Canada; Canada is a better country when we have laws on the books that better protect the children of this country. The two new offences that I'm talking about, in which you get two adults talking about setting up a child.... Canada is a better place if there are laws on the books against this kind of activity.
This bill stands on its own, as the others have. They're reasonable. Victims want this type of legislation. So thank you. Anything you can do within this committee to get this thing through and get it into the House and not have it derailed for any reason certainly would have my support and, I think, the support of the people of this country.