Okay. Well, I'll refer to clause 208 and use that as an opportunity. It talks about the coming into force of this particular part, which is really about immigration and refugee protection. There is an opportunity, of course, to refer to the coming into force of this part of the act, and the act itself is something that concerns us and concerns me.
I'm glad to hear that Mr. Cotler has discussed the possibility of a crime reduction board of Canada, as proposed by Professor Waller. We do know, of course, that it would require the government to take action on that.
But you know, in the context of this whole legislation and what we have before our committee, and the concerns often expressed by the government about victims, it strikes me that a government concerned about that would look seriously at, and would want to implement, a crime reduction board, because the whole purpose of a crime reduction board is to prevent the creation of new victims by the reduction of crime in our country.
So in fact the provisions, and the idea of these provisions, are to promote cost-effective ways to reduce crime; prevent victimization; provide services for victims and for the rights of victims; and to gather, analyze, and disseminate information so that decisions being made in the future would be made based on evidence and not simply relying on concerns that might be raised, which may be popular in some quarters, saying, we're going to be tough on crime.
But the evidence will show—and we'll be having an opportunity to debate that shortly—and almost all the evidence shows, that the methods proposed by this legislation aren't actually effective in doing that. So a crime reduction board for Canada would provide a mechanism—and to do it through analysis, research, and cooperation with provinces and territories—to find effective ways of doing that.
Because of our concerns about the changes being made to part 5 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and the amendments proposed, we will be voting against that and would not wish to see that part 5 be implemented.