Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36, I too would like to table a petition with several hundred names on it, most of them from the constituency of Beaver River but some from Edmonton and perhaps Edmonton Southeast and other cities.
Resulting from a murder this spring in the town of Bonnyville, these people are very concerned that there be stricter penalties for young offenders who commit crimes causing bodily harm or death. These individuals should be held in custody pending their court hearing. Young offenders 16 years and older who take the law into their own hands and cause death should be charged and treated as adults and tried in adult court without the consent of judges.
Therefore these petitioners pray and request that Parliament please make amendments and stiffer penalties to the Young Offenders Act.