Attorney General, I'm especially concerned that there may be no real consequence for those who breach bail conditions. If someone breaches bail and commits a violent offence, I believe they should be detained almost every single time instead of the revolving door that we currently have.
I want to move to young offenders. The new prevalence of young offenders, especially in gang violence in Toronto, is very troubling, but there is no sentencing reform in Bill C-14 with respect to young offenders. You close a loophole clarifying what violence is for purposes of custody, but the bill still does not increase sentences. For second-degree murder, for instance, the Youth Criminal Justice Act limits custodial sentences to four years. They often wait for one to two years, get two for one in pre-custody time, and then by the time they're sentenced, they're sentenced to a year or no time at all, and then they come out and terrorize our community.
Why doesn't Bill C-14 increase sentences for young offenders?