Mr. Speaker, Canadians want convicted criminals to serve sentences that properly reflect the seriousness of their crimes.
Accordingly, our government introduced Bill C-25 to get rid of the two for one credit for time spent in pretrial custody, which reduces the detention period after sentencing by half.
Bill C-25 is supported by the attorneys general of all the parties in all provinces, as well as by victims groups and police associations.
However, Liberal senators are in the process of gutting Bill C-25, and promise to do the same to other bills meant to get tough on crime.
The hon. member for Ajax—Pickering has even said that protecting the public against dangerous criminals is too expensive. We have always known that the Liberal leader and the Liberal Party were soft on crime—