Madam Speaker, my friend is talking about what has happened in the United States. It is interesting that whenever members opposite want to talk about our legislation, they just blindly suggest that we are following the American model.
I have another quote for the House:
Mandatory minimum sentences for serious drug crimes will help in our fight against organized crime in the trafficking and production of drugs.
...keep these criminals in jail longer, and you take away their opportunity to traffic in drugs.
Who said that? That was said Charles Morny, president of the Canadian Police Association October, 2010.
Those are the kinds of people whose support we are happy to have. The members opposite can quote whoever they want but we are standing up for Canadians and police forces.