Mr. Speaker, it is tough to ask the member any questions after that kind of speech, especially when he does not even know what he is talking half the time. I might as well talk about the years I spent in school because he raised them.
I spent a number of years there. I went through a number of school boards and a number of superintendents, all of whom gave me high praises and letters of merit. All kinds of great things came out of that experience for the way I operated, which was a gentle but firm tough love method. I never doubled my fist and neither did anybody else. We had a kids at risk program that worked very effectively. We were able to identify kids as low as grade one who were at risk. We were able to work effectively and it did not take legislation. It did not take anything but good common sense. Many people's lives were straightened out before it ever got to that point.
During those earlier years we had the freedom to operate as individuals with intelligence enough to know how to truly deal with some of the problems, regardless of the member's rhetoric. He does not know anything about it. He was not there. He read a little teeny clip, which was probably my talking about when I got a piece of wood, which is neither here nor there.
In the early eighties along came the Liberal government which brought in a charter of rights and then the Young Offenders Act. Suddenly everybody in the school on the kids at risk programs were tied. They could not do certain things because the government would not allow the good things that were going on to happen. Now it is espousing that these things should happen. Yet the charter of rights stops half of it. That is Liberal legislation. The Young Offenders Act came into being in 1984 and violent crime escalated, and the members knows that. What does he say about that?