Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Minister of Justice stated that, if anti-gang legislation would give the police the tools they needed to combat criminal gangs, he would introduce one. Experts from the SPCUM, the Quebec police force and the Quebec unit of the RCMP have been calling for such legislation for a year.
Rather than simply pay lip service, as he did yesterday, how can the Minister of Justice hide behind the current provisions of the Criminal Code and refuse to incorporate anti-gang provisions, as Italy, France and the United States have done?