Mr. Speaker, yesterday the solicitor general kept repeating the same mantra, no matter what question he was asked.
He claimed that the gradual release program improved public safety. A survey by his own department found that 37% of prisoners in the early release program reoffended within two years, but only 16% reoffended in the same time period if they served their full sentence.
My question. Does the solicitor general think we should keep the bad guys in jail for their full sentence if it cuts their probability of reoffending—