Mr. Speaker, unlike a lot of policies and parties I have seen, I think they are lacking a little ability to determine priorities.
The government should know where best to use the money that will benefit Canadians the most. Education, protection and health are always priorities. Our policy strongly suggests that there has to be an amount of money available for those who are severely in need. I am talking about people who are living on welfare and cannot do anything about it. I am talking about the handicapped who are unable to earn money because they cannot get a job. I am talking about a genuine need. That is where we would expect the dollars to go.
We would also expect the dollars to go into native affairs. For example, money should be used to eliminate the poverty and squalor that some of these people are living in on the reserves. I have seen it with my own eyes. It is a shame.
I do not think we need to look at people who are addicted and caught up in the activity of drugs as being anything more than victims. We need a system that is going to help as best it can. I am certainly no expert on what type of program we could have that would help people avoid drugs. We live in a country where drugs are rampant and available in our penitentiaries. This is where it could be corrected, but we have failed to even attempt that. That certainly has a bearing on what happens out in the rest of the world. People are supposed to be sent to penitentiaries for drug rehabilitation yet drugs are more available in the penitentiary than anywhere else. It hardly makes sense to me.
A lot of people come into Canada from foreign lands just for the purpose of distributing drugs and profiting highly. When we catch these individuals committing a crime, why do we want them to stay in Canada and impose their evil deeds on our young people? Let us deport them. Who needs them?
It is thoroughly disgusting to go into cities and see 12 and 13 year olds working as prostitutes. These are children who are victims. When they find the 20 or 30 year old individual who is called their pimp, he gets a small slap on the wrist and is back out finding a new victim. Why do we want to treat those people so kindly? If I suggest there are better solutions to dealing with criminals of that nature, then immediately the words would come out “Oh, the extremist”.
Is it okay that a pimp can manage 11 and 12 year old kids on our streets, get a six month sentence and then be released back into our community? No, it is not okay. We have to take these criminals a little more seriously. They are going to try to suck all our young people into these programs and we have to stop them. We have to make up our minds to do it and get away from the political rhetoric of “Oh, what an evil thought” or “Oh, what an extreme man”.