Mr. Speaker, Larry Takahashi was sentenced to three life sentences for committing 14 rapes on Edmonton women. He is now serving time at the Ferndale golf and country club for minimum security prisoners in my riding of Dewdney—Alouette, B.C. For his punishment Mr. Takahashi is confined to an institution that boasts a nine hole golf course and a choice of Coke and Pepsi machines.
Is the Ferndale golf and country club too intrusive for the balaclava rapist that he now needs leave to visit family and friends? He raped 31 women and in 1991 he was granted leave which was revoked due to public pressure.
The citizens of my community, of Edmonton or anywhere else in Canada, should not have to beg the solicitor general to keep their families safe from sexual predators. A competent and compassionate minister would place the safety of the Canadian public and the well-being of victims above the demands of coddled criminals.