Mr. Speaker, it always amuses me when I hear a Liberal member, albeit one who has some compassion in some areas, use the term justice principles. Principles and justice just do not seem to go together with the Liberal government.
I suppose one question might be, why would we want to have this bill ticking away instead of going to committee and putting in amendments. There are two reasons. First, there is the word maybe. We do not believe the Liberals would put in amendments on this. Second, we are not talking about a little tinkering. We are not talking about a bill that is fundamentally good and to which we have to make a little correction or two. We are talking about a bill that is fundamentally flawed.
It is an absolute farce to bring in the bill in the manner in which it is now. Are there problems of how judges would deal with this and interpret it? We have to start realizing that we are not people who draft some little thing for judges to consider. We are legislators. We write the laws. The job of the judges is to enforce what we write.
We have to start writing it a lot better. If there are problems, we had better find ways to fix them. What is happening right now is an absolute farce of the justice system. The victims have no rights at all. We bend over backward for the criminals and say that we do not want to step on their rights. What about the rights of the people who they violated? Those are the ones to whom we have to start paying a lot more attention than we are doing right now. The bill certainly does not do that.