Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that the member is very excited about his bill. The fact of the matter is that we are certainly determined to track down the smugglers. That is the real problem here. However, we do not believe that we should be punishing the migrants in the process. Let us put whatever efforts we can into tracking down these smugglers.
I already indicated several times that we have the availability of life sentences under the current legislation. Let us put some effort into finding the smugglers.
I have given the government credit. It has made some initiatives to deal with foreign governments and it has appointed a special adviser on human smuggling and illegal migration. Let us give this system some time. The problem did not just develop yesterday.
Australia has been dealing with this problem for several years. It has had detention systems and they do not work. The migrants keep coming.
The government, once again, wants to do something that does not work.