Mr. Speaker, could the member comment on one of the many reasons the Conservative agenda is rough on victims and makes Canada more dangerous? Examples of this agenda are: putting first-time offenders in penitentiaries, making them more dangerous; reducing alternative sentencing that has had such a good record; reducing funding for prevention and victims of crime; cutting services to mental health and FAS facilities and situations; creating sentences that would not pass fairness, so the criminals would get away scot-free; doing nothing to reduce the excessive percentage of aboriginal peoples in jail; closing prison farms; not investing in rehabilitation or training; not increasing services for addictions; and, finally, ignoring the root causes of crime.
In the House of Commons on February 16th, 2011. See this statement in context.