Mr. Speaker, last week a group of young offenders beat an innocent girl to death. What comfort did the Minister of Justice offer? This is what she said: “I hope there is nobody out there who believes that if we just made the law tough enough that youth crime would disappear.” That is what she said when talking about cruelty to innocent girls, while indicating she is going to increase the penalty for cruelty to animals by more than four years.
Why is it that people who are cruel to animals are going to serve more jail time than the young offenders who were involved in the beating death of Reena Virk?