I feel betrayed. I feel as though I have been violated. I no longer trust people.
Based on what I have heard today, everyone seems to be very concerned about the state of mind and rehabilitation of people who did things they should never have done, but no one seems concerned about the lives of their victims, who have to carry on. All these people are very concerned. We have to rehabilitate them. But what about us? How are we going to be rehabilitated? How do you keep on going when you are suffering from psychological problems such as depression, when you see people committing suicide around you, when you see elderly people who have lost everything? No one is concerned about that.
What I think is that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms that we have here in Canada serves to protect criminals, instead of the victims or the people of this country who work and pay their taxes. I find that very frustrating.
In addition to that, we have to keep paying. We cannot even get a tax credit, because we were swindled. We are still paying taxes.
These people are concerned about overcrowding. We have to build more prisons because it's going to be the disease of the century. It won't be bank holdups, it's going to be fraud — by the white-collar criminals we hear about every day. They are coming out of the woodwork.
We have to find a solution; we have to get them to stop. We have to scare them and tell them they will suffer the consequences. That is something you learn when you're very young. You are told that there are laws you have to abide by and that, if you do not, there will be consequences. We shouldn't be giving them opportunities or saying that, for psychological reasons, we have to help them become reintegrated and all of that.
Who here is thinking about us?