Madam Speaker, I want to intervene and comment for the purpose of clarifying the section 745 provision and ask a question of the member. I have considerable sympathy for his position on this issue and how his views relate to the position of victim, which is of course the way the opposition motion is phrased today.
The section 745 provision enables someone who has a 25 year minimum incarceration to ask a jury if they might have an earlier parole eligibility date than the 25 years. A person who is sentenced to life imprisonment has a sentence for life. Therefore, it is parole eligibility that is shortened not necessarily the sentence.
Could the member comment on how that would relate to the position of victims, victims beyond the person who is dead of course. I guess we are talking about family when we talk of victims of a murder.