Madam Speaker, the hon. member who just spoke and some of his colleagues touched on some quite particular aspects. We see that they each chose a subject in turn. In this case, it is illegal immigrants who commit murders while they are in Canada illegally.
The motion before us today concerns victims' rights, we must agree, but it is very, very general. I would just like to point out to the hon. member that a study, which I do not have on hand now, reports that about 80 per cent of the murders in Canada are committed by family members or someone in the victim's immediate circle. We must keep that in mind, because a very large majority of murders are committed in such circumstances. Knowing that, I think that we should deal again with the whole issue of the availability of firearms or other dangerous weapons that violent spouses or other persons in the victim's circle might use.
There is also another aspect. Murder is not the only crime, theft is another, but all studies show that such crimes are often related to poverty and social problems.
I would like to hear what the hon. member has to say on these two aspects in particular and not only about illegal immigrants, which he emphasized before, since all in all, crimes committed by illegal immigrants account for very little of the problem that we are talking about today.