Mr. Speaker, first it might be helpful to remind the member for Winnipeg North that there actually is a very modern audio system in the chamber that amplifies sound.
I point out to the member that there has been extensive debate on this bill at second reading. Dozens of witnesses were heard at the committee's review of the bill and, indeed, this is not a notion that has been introduced without previous public debate. To the contrary, the Conservative Party of Canada included the core of this bill as an election campaign platform commitment, so we all had an opportunity to debate the content of this bill during the last election period. Canadians gave this government a mandate to make our streets safer, in part by more quickly deporting convicted serious foreign criminals, and we have an obligation to keep that commitment.