Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives are proposing a strategy based on the American approach: severe minimum sentences, larger prisons, little room for rehabilitation, and an approach based on a sentence for every crime, no matter what the circumstances. Yet, there are three times the number of homicides in the United States than there are in Canada, and four times more than in Quebec.
Does the Minister of Justice acknowledge that he is going down the wrong path by following the American model of justice that no one wants?