Mr. Speaker, we could accept the changes the Liberal government put forward in criminal justice programs if they were concrete steps, if they were steps that moved the prevention of crime ahead. There has been little more than tinkering done with the justice system since 1993 and prior thereto.
The member talked about how the Reform Party would not support some of the justice bills that were brought in by the Liberal government. The reason for that, and he knows it very well, is that within all the pages of changes there might be one minute piece of legislation, one clause that we could consider to be something that was a positive step. The rest was simply window dressing. In many cases it was a backward step in dealing with criminals and the crime situation. That is why we could not support the Liberal bills.
He talked about Bill C-41. There was one small good part in it which, if they had separated it out, we would have supported. They would not do that and we had to vote against the bill.