Thank you.
Welcome, Mr. Copeland, and thank you for your testimony.
I'd like to address your article in the National Post concerning the mandatory minimum sentences. I've long maintained, and my friends have long maintained, that this Liberal government has abdicated its responsibility for keeping Canadians safe vis-à-vis an explosion of crime since its election in 2015. You write, “Although correlation is not causation, it's noteworthy that a decade-long rise in crime rates coincided with the return of the Liberals to power in 2015”.
Can you please expand on that?