I think my colleagues understand my point about the safety valve. Specifically, as I mentioned earlier, the Liberal government decided that murder and treason are going to be specifically excluded from the application of the safety valve. Mr. Housefather suggested that is because of the seriousness of the offences, and we are less likely to run into a situation where a court would deviate from the prescribed minimum penalty.
Here I am to suggest that, first of all, that's not necessarily true. You might think of a situation like Edward Snowden, where public opinion was very much in favour of a defector who was accused of treason and was tried in absentia. I am here to suggest that if we believe that murder and treason are so serious that they rise to the moral turpitude of being excluded from the safety valve, along comes Mr. Brock who says, “Please exclude serious offences from the application of the safety valve. Please exclude child sexual offences from the application of the safety valve.”
Naud, when he gets caught with 300 videos of children aged three to six being raped, is subjected to the mandatory minimum sentence of at least one year. One year is generous for that monster. That's what we're saying. Let's work collaboratively to protect children. That's what this amendment is about.