Mr. Speaker, first of all, I congratulate my colleague on a fine speech. I have just a quick point.
One of the issues here is to create this auto theft as a separate element to our Criminal Code, and I want to get his comments on that.
Yesterday we had a private member's bill by the hon. member for Red Deer about impersonating a police officer, which I think is a great bill and will be voting for it.
In this particular case, in his experience, could he comment on that? Has he seen that sort of practice before? Does he think this is fundamentally a good idea, to separate the idea of auto theft from it?
Could he also talk about how this bill has been so delayed? We have had Bill C-53 and Bill C-26, time and time again, delay after delay, and we finally get around to doing something, which everybody in this House agrees with.