Mr. Speaker, the hon. member makes reference to some of the present prison population.
There are victims reported today in the press calling for the passage of the bill we introduced yesterday, victims' families calling for the passage of the bill.
If this bill is passed the present prison population will face a much tighter and significantly strengthened process under section 745. People who are now in prison will have to get past a judge in the screening process.
If the hon. member and his party are prepared to support us in getting this bill through, we can get it through by the summer break. If they do not, let us face it, they have a choice to make: will they support this bill and see it passed or will they stand in its way so that people now in prison will not have to face that screening mechanism before they get to a jury?