The only reason I raise this is that your predecessor, David Lametti, was very proud of the fact that mandatory minimum penalties do not work. In fact, he was quoted numerous times, and the quotes have not aged well over time given the rise in crime levels in this country. I put to him the very possibility that the Supreme Court of Canada could be upholding mandatory minimum penalties that Bill C-5 removed. I raised that as an issue, and sure enough, after the royal assent of Bill C-5, the Supreme Court of Canada, in the Hills and Hilbach joint decision, upheld the mandatory minimum penalty that was removed by Bill C-5.
Given that the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a number of mandatory minimum penalties that have been in existence in the Criminal Code since the late 1800s, and given that the 15 classes of offences that you removed in Bill C-5 are very significant and violent offences, including every single drug offence in the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, why wouldn't this government take this opportunity to strengthen our criminal laws, as opposed to weakening them?