Mr. Speaker, it is not right to assume the Liberals would be opening up the gates and letting these prisoners go free. In many cases I am not sure why they would want to go free. That was precisely my point.
It is difficult to oppose at times some bills in the House. This is where I get to the problem with the Liberal government legislation. Those members come half way to doing the job and we are saying the government has to take it all the way.
What do we do? We are in a conundrum of either supporting it or saying the government has not gone far enough. The government makes it difficult in those situations to get agreement from this side. That is truly unfortunate because the amendments to the bill I mentioned were not unreasonable.
The example the member gave about a crime against a child being a more severe crime is not the point. The point is if there is a sexual crime against a child or an adult, make them both tough. Do not isolate the child. Make it child and adult. Why could the government not have done that? That is the point.
The government is taking these issues half way. If it would take them all the way and incorporate some of these things and toughen up on this crime like the people of the country are asking for, there would be support from this side of the House.