Madam Speaker, I was wondering if my colleague would like the opportunity to comment on the lack of priorities the government has had with regard to Bill C-37.
In this bill the Liberal government is raising judges salaries. Yet day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, the justice minister has been asked when we will be seeing changes to the Young Offenders Act.
Bill C-67 which raises the wages of our judges takes higher priority and comes before making serious changes to the Young Offenders Act. Not only do we see it before changes to the Young Offenders Act, but we see it before changes to section 745, the faint hope clause. There is also a backlog in our court system. If there is a backlog in our court system, surely the money would have been better allocated to hire more judges to take care of the backlog rather than to pay the judges more money.
I wonder if the hon. member would like to comment on the lack of priorities of the Liberal government on criminal justice.