Madam Chair, that was probably one of the worst weekends of my career here in Parliament when I attended those two funerals.
I think first of Anthony Gordon, visiting with his mother, visiting with his wife who is expecting another child in July, and seeing his two-year-old son who will never have a dad. That hits one pretty hard. It creates a lot of emotion.
When I hear this Liberal namby-pamby about what we are going to do with criminals, it just makes me furious.
I will never forget the Brock Myrol family who gave a eulogy to their son saying what a great person he was and what kind of a young man he was. I am a parent myself, but to hear parents do that I could not do what they did that day. It was very touching.
Here was a young guy being buried in a superman T-shirt because that was what he was like. He always raised the bar. He lived by the Lone Ranger's Creed . It would be my pleasure to read this into the record tonight because this was the creed of this young man who died because of James Roszko with 30 charges and being let out every time and never paying the penalty that he should have by law. The creed states:
I believe that to have a friend,a man must be one.That all men are created equaland that everyone has within himselfthe power to make this a better world.That God put the firewood therebut that every manmust gather and light it himself.In being preparedphysically, mentally, and morallyto fight when necessaryfor that which is right.That a man should make the mostof what equipment he has.That “This government,of the people, by the peopleand for the people”shall live always.That men should live bythe rule of what is bestfor the greatest number.That sooner or later...somewhere...somehow...we must settle with the worldand make payment for what we have taken.That all things change but truth,and that truth alone, lives on forever.In my Creator, my country, my fellow man.
I think that sums it up. Maybe we should give some real serious thought as to how we can improve this justice system. That is the message I got. I do not want those four young men to die in vain without the government getting that message that we must change the way this justice system works. We must make it mean something. We must crack down on these thugs who literally are running our country in many cases because judges are just not doing their job.
That is how it touched me. I certainly talked to the parents and have said to them that we must do something about this. It is our job to carry this message here and to ensure it is heard. I give a lot of credit to my colleague who has done so much on this because two of the officers were from his community as well. We must get this message across.