Mr. Speaker, to the hon. member I would like to say how much I appreciate his family values and the importance and emphasis he puts on schools and the function that they have to perform. I compliment him on his speech in that manner. He did a very good job.
I would like to ask the hon. member to comment on something that crosses my mind when we talk about what we are going to do with regard to these problems. Over the course of the last 20 or 25 years or whatever we talked about causes. The causes, we have to search them out.
I remember the drinking age being 21 and how that was lowered. That simply meant that it was lowered even lower than the illegal drinking age. Instead of 18 and 19 year olds illegally drinking, now it is 14, 15 and 13 year olds.
I think of pornography. There was a time we did not have any. Now it is running rampant. We have a lady in Alberta who is fighting hard to get rid of pornography, peep shows, nude dancing, all these things which we know contribute to the minds of our youth in a very negative way. It is a cause.
If you walked down the street and called a policeman a pig when you were a young man, what would happen? You would not do it out of fear, but more so out of respect. Now it is common practice. Yet there is no recourse, no way in the world that they are supposed to do any thing. We do not meet violence with violence. We listen to all of this bad mouthing-causes.
It seems like every time I address it the one thing that comes up is a wall that is put in front of me. If we want to do something about these causes, it is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms that stops us so many times. When we decide we want to do something about a problem we have to remember the rights. I think it is a hindrance in our judicial system in that regard with young offenders.
Would the hon. member comment on that?