Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate my colleague from Abitibi—Témiscamingue for his vision in this matter.
I would like to share a thought with him. In my riding, and I would like him to tell me if this is the case in other ridings, I have often seen people serving conditional sentences, especially women. Sometimes they are rather serious cases. At some point when a women is sentenced, her children have to be placed in care. Often she loses her housing because she is in prison for 12, 13 or 15 months; she loses her job; she loses everything. When she gets out, her ties with her children have been severed. It is difficult for her to start over.
I would like to know if my colleague has come across such cases where going to prison has prevented these people from easily reintegrating into society and their community.