Mr. Speaker, in short, this government will be following through on its commitments made during last year's election campaign in which we dealt at length with steps we intend to take to achieve safe homes and safe streets, as we put it. The changes that were introduced last week with respect to the Young Offenders Act are the first example that I would proffer to the hon. member.
I may mention as well that in the days ahead we intend to table legislation that will significantly reform the sentencing provisions in the Criminal Code. We intend to bring forward a variety of other amendments to the code to make it more effective in terms of prescribing and enforcing the criminal law.
May I emphasize perhaps most of all the initiative that I expect the Solicitor General and I will be announcing in the coming weeks concerning the forging of a national strategy for crime prevention and the creation of a national crime prevention council, which I think is the most constructive response to the concern in the community to which the hon. member has referred.