Mr. Speaker, I have great respect for the member who just spoke. He is an excellent parliamentarian. I would like to ask him a question that I wanted to ask either the solicitor general or the justice minister but I could not because of time constraints.
The question is both at the same time the easiest and the hardest in this debate. The question is quite simple. The solicitor general is the chief policeman of the country. Canada's tradition is that our police are responsible for upholding the law. That is the fundamental charge that we give our police.
Finally, the ultimate law in Canada is the charter of rights and freedoms. Does it not therefore follow that whatever we do and whatever steps we take that the justice minister, the solicitor general and this parliament must protect the principles of the charter of rights and freedoms?