Madam Speaker, it was my intention to speak at this moment in the House notwithstanding that I have sat here slightly aggravated in listening to the presentation by the Bloc Quebecois speaker.
There is a comment I must make before I give up the balance of my time to the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands. He cancelled a flight in order to be here, disappointing his constituency, and to reflect his respect for the subject matter. I will be pleased to give him his time, but in one moment please.
The member for Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca has presented a very important motion, the concept of which I fully support. The mechanism is a matter for discussion just so long as the ends are found.
The Bloc Quebecois' narrowness of spirit and narrowness of view is totally reflected in a lack of understanding in this North American continent and in fact within the western nations that share many of these problems, the issues of what to do for youth, for children, particularly prebirth, prenatal and immediately following birth, love, nurturing, affection, emotion and how to be a parent.
All these are issues we are all looking at. It is hard to know the reason why we have the number of young people acting out as the member pointed out in his speech.
I just wanted to highlight that if we were to put these walls around Quebec so that we should not be, God forbid, working together federal, provincial and municipal and volunteer associations and researchers, we would be losing or perhaps duplicating and wasting money.
I refer them to a study on crime prevention by Dr. Tremblay in Montreal. He was the director for youth protection in the province of Quebec. My colleagues who were the directors of youth protection and I have looked at all kinds of programs worldwide, in particular in Canada, including Quebec. We would have looked at Dr. Tremblay's longitudinal study on the root of criminal behaviour. It can often be traced back to childhood experiences, the reasons for aggressive behaviour.
Researchers have begun to investigate the protective factors that allow a child to be resilient and to succeed despite bleak negative environments. Their research has revealed that resilient children generally have certain characteristics. This can all be found in the initiatives of the Canadian government combined with the provincial governments. It was done under safer communities, a parliamentary crime prevention guide. The status of women's group was very much involved with this as were parental groups and many others.
I suggest that the Bloc take heed of what this member has brought to this House. It should look at ways of implementing it. Never mind the name, never mind the party. Just look at the possibility of addressing a very serious problem that we do not want recycled generation after generation.