Mr. Speaker, in a dissenting opinion to the report of the Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, the Bloc Quebecois points out that the exploitation of violence cannot fail to be of concern to all of us. There is no doubt that trade cards and board games (black series) fly in the face of our fundamental values and shamefully defile the memory of the battered and murdered victims.
Witnesses indicated that they had been unable to have a look at these board games and serial killer cards until the committee gave them samples. The same was true of most MPs who opposed importing and manufacturing serial killer cards. They acknowledged they had never seen any.
Therefore, one must wonder how such a marginal issue could keep committee members occupied for several months. Obviously, this is not very responsible.
We firmly believe that this committee should deal more with issues related to real violence rather than hypothetical violence due to the action of some shady publishers.