Mr. Speaker, that was a wonderful response from the solicitor general, but I cannot reconcile from those remarks and from his previous remarks that if the government has done so much and brought in so much legislation and given the police so much by assisting them why organized crime is still escalating. Why is it still getting worse, which he has acknowledged in his own remarks? That does not jibe.
I want to focus my question on a very specific aspect of his responsibilities as solicitor general. We know that there have been a number of serious instances within the present confines. In 1997 prison guards Diane Lavigne and Pierre Rondeau were gunned down in separate attacks and ambushes attributed to the Hell's Angels. Last week, after the August shooting, a Quebec prison guard was shot while driving to work.
I would like to hear from the solicitor general. What is he doing specifically to protect his guards? I hearken back to the issue of the 50:50 release program. What is he doing to help his own prison guards?