Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to the member's intervention. I understand the fishing analogy but, unfortunately, where I live there are no fish left thanks to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, so I cannot use that analogy. I think the member might have the same problem in his province.
I would like to ask the member, does he believe that the reason the Liberals brought Bill C-68 into this House and passed it had nothing to do with the safety of Canadians? They knew that full well when they brought it in.
It was nothing more than a deliberate Machiavellian attempt to conceal from Canadians the failure of their justice system, the failure of their inability to deal with the shortcomings in the criminal justice system. This was a way to try to persuade Canadians that the government was actually doing something, when nothing could be further from the truth.
We have a justice minister who has for over a year promised changes to the YOA and no changes have been made to date.
We have a criminal justice system that lets convicted rapists walk the streets without serving any time in jail.
Is that not the reason they brought this so-called gun control legislation in? Does it not have more to do with trying to hide their own failure?