Mr. Speaker, immediately following the disaster of the Oklahoma bombing, the U.S. attorney general pledged she would seek the death penalty for those responsible. This demonstrates that country's intolerance for violent crime, something that is greatly lacking in our own country. Here a bleeding heart mentality has reigned for years.
In Canada last week, one of our police chiefs was shot to death. Did the Minister of Justice display the same outrage as his American counterpart to this senseless act of violence? Did the minister express the growing outrage of Canadians, including our police officers, who have repeatedly called for a return of capital punishment in this country? No.
Our justice minister's only response to this latest act of violence is to offer Canadians costly and useless gun registration. That is what this minister calls getting behind our police forces.
Criminals will not be deterred by the registration of firearms. They will not be stopped until we have a justice minister with sufficient backbone to take a strong stand against this senseless kind of violence.