Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I hear Randall, and quite frankly I've given a lot of thought to this. As of last week, because of a ten percenter I sent out, I've received some very troubling phone calls from people. In this case, a five-year old child had been violently sexually assaulted by a relative and this is, Randall, why I'm saying what I'm about to say. I also heard from another lady who had been sexually assaulted as a child and has been for years and years going through therapy...and the feeling of victimization. The perpetrator of the five-year-old unfortunately received a provincial sentence because it was two years less a day.
My fear is that if we're too restrictive in what we're doing...I understand where Randall is coming from, I really, really do, but it's very difficult for me, and I'm being frank here, to accept that we limit it to only murder and designated offenders. I'm just fearful we're being too prescriptive here and that while you're afraid we will have many victims one way, my fear is we'll have many victims, you know...
I understand where you're coming from, but I just don't think we need to be that prescriptive at this particular point. I think the schedule 1 is sufficient.