Mr. Speaker, in Vancouver, Joel Libin, a 16 year old teenager, was brutally beaten while walking home one evening, leaving him with permanent brain damage. The two youths involved in this attack pleaded guilty, but were granted conditional sentences of only 18 months of house arrest.
Rather than continuing to review the matter, as the parliamentary secretary has stated, why does the government not commit to tabling legislation here and now to ensure criminals do serious time for serious crime?