Mr. Speaker, no part of the government's justice agenda is determined or established by public opinion polls.
Our focus during the six months that Parliament has been in session has been in fulfilling the undertakings we made during the campaign by introducing legislation to strengthen the Young Offenders Act, by strengthening the sentencing laws and by
introducing last week a bill that included literally 100 amendments to the Criminal Code to improve and modernize it.
The hon. member raises the question of capital punishment. We ran for election last year on a very specific platform in justice matters. This government, instead of looking at polls as suggested by the hon. member, is concentrating on fulfilling those commitments.