If the member had been listening, I did not say use the notwithstanding clause. One of the government's problems is that it does not listen too well. That is why it is in the fix it is in today.
There are quotes from an RCMP report detailing triad and Russian Mafia control of bringing young women from eastern Europe into Canada for prostitution and exotic dancing using illegal entry, visitor visas and refugee claims. I again get back to the comment that this is just not a justice-solicitor general issue. Many of these issues come back to immigration into Canada, open borders and the refusal to refuse people coming in.
I want to make a statement and pose a question at the same time. I heard the justice minister's answer a while ago when I asked the question about plea bargaining. While I am not a lawyer and do not want to be, I can understand and appreciate that there are differences between federal and provincial legal systems, whereas the administration of the courts are within provincial jurisdiction. However, there has to be some way the federal government can influence the courts in a province to prevent such plea bargaining from taking place. The difficulty with plea bargaining in many cases is that the only person who gets hurt is the victim. That is a fact.
It seems to me that if we have laws that are going to be worth anything, to allow the legal industry in a courtroom to take away what just might be the answer, a consecutive sentence for being a member of organized crime, is a shame. I think the concentration for the solicitor general and for the justice minister should be in that area; apply the laws. That is all Canadians are asking for.
I had a number of recommendations, and I suppose I have covered most of them, but I will give a couple more. We have to create a mandatory minimum five year jail term for smuggling or criminally exploiting illegal immigrants into Canada. We have to prohibit conditional release of any kind for an offender ordered deported. We have to amend the Immigration Act to require the deportation of a person found to be a member of an organized criminal group, among many other things that I have mentioned.
If there is one thing the justice minister and the solicitor general take away tonight, I hope it is that we in Canada are looking for action and not more studies. Once a law is a law it must be applied in our courts for a change.