Mr. Speaker, I listened closely to my colleague and I appreciate what he said, but I have a question for him.
The hon. member for Windsor West and I made a request, but we have not received a response. That is why we are voting in favour of the amendment.
Let us assume that the responses will say something like this: that there was very little recidivism; and criminals who were released under very strict conditions in accordance with the faint hope clause did not reoffend, or not very often. I will probably have a chance to come back to that in the next few minutes.
How is it that the Liberal Party, which supported the faint hope clause, is about to vote in favour of a bill that will eliminate an inmate's faint hope of rehabilitating himself?