We are now a year and a half or more past that date, and now they seem to have problems with what was passed on June 8, 2009.
Another thing Mr. Davies doesn't seem to understand is that victims are also taxpayers. We had witnesses here on Bill C-59, and one of them was asked by Mr. Davies about the cost of the bill. The witness told this committee that the additional cost, whatever it was, was small compared with the cost that he and others are paying as a result of some of these criminal acts. He also related one of those costs in detail: two people he knew who had been victimized had committed suicide. Somehow, those costs get lost on the side.
When we look at these costs, and it's fair to look at them, there is also another cost to society that the victims suffer as a result of criminal acts. I don't know if we've ever heard the other side talk about that. Have you ever heard those questions?