Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank Madam Boivin for the amendment.
The government will not be supporting the amendment. In our view, it defeats the purpose. This would reduce the penalties on the purchasers where they are doing it in a place where children are or are likely to be—we clarified it earlier today—the schoolyard, the playground, and the day care centre. If the purchasers go to those places to purchase sex, we think they deserve a higher penalty. The children are the people we are trying to protect in that in instance.
For those reasons, we will not be supporting this amendment, Madam Boivin.