Madam Speaker, in listening to the member's speech I note that the quote was taken from a time, while certainly not the middle ages, some 23 years ago.
I would also point out and perhaps the member could respond, that about a year and a half ago in passing legislation dealing with corrections and parole, the statute dealing with penitentiaries and the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and in reviewing the draft of the statute the priorities which were to be considered by the department were listed in the statute. For some particular reason and we did not know why, the safety of the public was not number one.
I say that in revising the statute for passage we in the committee moved the item up from No. 3 or 4 up to No. 1. I want to suggest that perhaps the pendulum is swinging back the other way after some 20 years. I accept the member's approach and I wonder if he would comment on the swinging of the pendulum.