Mr. Speaker, I find there to be a curious inconsistency in the Liberal thinking.
In some of the other bills that we have been discussing, vis-à-vis mandatory minimum sentences, for example, the Liberals have been adamant that we ought not to give the judge that discretion, and yet now they are saying that they want to take away from the crown prosecutor the discretion of whether or not to bring forward the designated dangerous offender status for a convicted person.
I would like to know why they are willing to give discretion in one case but quite adamant to take it away in this case.