Mr. Speaker, I would like to come back to my colleague's remarks.
The U.S. has a great deal of experience with mandatory minimum sentences. This concept was invented and perfected in the U.S., particularly in Texas and California.
However, in the past four or five years, a senator and a congressman have finally concluded that there is no proof or analysis to justify this shift towards harsher and harsher minimum prison sentences.
Can my colleague help us understand why the government continues to push for a concept that even the Republican Party in the United States has given up on?