Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for the question. I know he is concerned about these issues within his own community. It is a difficult question.
There are a lot of different factors that would lead a young person of 10 or 11 years of age to get involved in committing a violent act. In my opinion, the number one factor would be the lack of love or the lack of support within the family unit. I think that would be the number one factor, but there are many others.
One thing that could be done would be to provide a support network to support the individual's family, proactively, so that it does not get to the point where a child of 10 or 11 years is committing a violent criminal act. We in this House can help by introducing legislation which supports family and community, and proactively looks at how to deal with individuals and how we can support that basic unit of our society, the family, before an individual gets to the point of committing a criminal act.
It is a good question. There are a lot of other factors, but that would be the primary one in my opinion.