Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for that important question.
I also want to commend our colleague, the member for Parkdale—High Park, who introduced a bill on animal cruelty. This is proof of our initiative and our leadership on this issue. My colleague has been involved in this for years.
We support the idea behind this bill, but we have some serious concerns about some flaws in the bill that have nothing to do with its objective.
We hope that Conservative members in committee will have the goodwill to make improvements, in order to protect animals and to avoid undermining our judges and our judicial system.