Mr. Speaker, I have the privilege of submitting a very large petition, in fact one of the largest to come to the House.
The petitioners request parliament to prescribe the mandatory minimum jail term of seven days for persons found guilty of a first offence of impaired driving causing bodily harm or death by amending section 255(1)(a) of the Criminal Code to read as follows.
Everyone who commits an offence under section 253 or 254 is guilty of an indictable offence or an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable, whether the offence is prosecuted by indictment or punishable on summary conviction, to the following minimum punishment, namely for a first offence, to imprisonment—”