Mr. Speaker, that is totally irrelevant and is of absolutely zero comfort to the victims of crime.
If there were a maximum sentence imposed it might be relevant but it is not relevant. Justice is supposed to be blind. It is not supposed to be peeking out from under a blindfold to see what one's skin colour is.
The government should be ashamed of having this provision. This is the only country in the world that asks judges to be social workers and asks judges to peer out and see what the race of the offender is.
Liberal justice is two tier justice. It is race based justice. It is colour coded justice. The Canadian Alliance believes that Canadians are equal before the courts and aboriginal victims of crime deserve equal justice.
I ask the government to--