Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Surrey North for bringing up that issue. It is not one that is easy to forget.
An individual murdered his wife and it was not a clean murder. He tried to hide it. He tried to clean her up, put her back into bed and pretend she died in the night even though she was battered and bruised. He was convicted of manslaughter. As so often happens we had plea bargaining. It was the easiest way to get a conviction and so he got manslaughter with five years and was out after putting in his required number of years. He requested visitations with his children when he was still on parole. The children had to go through tremendous difficulties, counselling and the whole bit. The youngest child was still nursing when the mother was killed.
Now the family that has taken over the care of these children since he was charged and incarcerated is fighting in the courts at great expense to keep custody of these children knowing the psychological damage that has already happened to these children and which would continue if they were to go back to their father.
It is an ongoing case where the victims have to go into the court system over and over again to try to make sure justice is served.