I wish to alert the committee to an article that appeared this morning in the National Post, titled “Fraser says he considered notwithstanding clause after court struck down child porn penalties”. This is an article from this morning, by Stephanie Taylor. I was pleased to learn that Sean Fraser had considered the invocation of the notwithstanding clause.
However, I was reminded of his testimony on Monday, when he suggested that he did not feel that it was appropriate to invoke the notwithstanding clause in response to the Senneville and Naud decision, which struck down the mandatory minimum sentences for child pornography. Specifically in Mr. Naud's case, it awarded him with nine months instead of the mandatory one year, subsequent to him being found in possession of more than 250 videos of children being, effectively, raped. I've put it to the Attorney General that this is precisely the type of scenario—