Mr. Speaker, indeed I have spent a lot of time in that area. I have spent a good deal of my political time in courtrooms and in prisons attending parole board hearings. Just last week I spent a whole day with a victim of child sexual abuse. An individual got two years, if we can believe it, for sexually abusing a young girl from the age of 10 through 18. I was in the room talking to her. This guy was trying to get out early.
What I do not want to hear today or tonight is the justice minister saying “Oh, we are going to look after it. We are going to bring in a bunch of lawyers from the federal government to intervene on an appeal court case which could last a year or more”. Meanwhile, we still have the same problem out there and we could still end up with the very same decision that was made in British Columbia. That is the problem.
There should be no more legal industry involved in this. We in this House have a responsibility and an obligation to the voters, to everybody in Canada, to stand and say that child pornography is illegal and that no other court case will overturn that decision. That is the bottom line.