Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Madam Lapointe, for being here, and congratulations. I'm a new member of Parliament, but I understand that getting a private member's bill even to this stage is something that is quite an accomplishment.
I don't doubt your intentions. Over the last 10 years, and you and I would probably disagree on causes, but I think we've seen rampant criminality, and communities are paying the price for this.
At the same time, I also am very mindful of policies and proposals that I fear will give false hope to communities. We know that 2% of cases involve restitution, and, of those, just one-quarter of restitution orders are actually paid. How is your bill going to actually deliver what you're effectively trying to get it to deliver?
