Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm not going to be long. What I wanted to indicate was that I supported Mr. Davies' right to have this discussion, in terms of challenging the chair, but I strongly oppose the amendment itself.
We went through this as a committee when we were studying Bill C-34, when it was introduced by the government in the House. We had hearings, and I spoke in the House of Commons about this. I spoke very strongly in terms of challenging the government to make its bill tougher.
For example, one of the loopholes it left was in requiring sex offenders to register their licence plates and details about their vehicles, which is actually now in the legislation. It's been corrected. What we've really done is try to make this into a stronger, or even broader, version of Ontario's Christopher's Law.
I think that the current legislation, as we have it before us, is good, and we need to make it as strong as possible. I do not think there should be judicial discretion for the specific examples he has noted here. We need to make this law tough to protect our citizens. So I oppose it on that basis.