Mr. Speaker, this parliamentary review is well over a year overdue now. It is difficult to overstate the urgency of the task before us as parliamentarians. Every year, 2.2 million Canadians are victimized by crime. The severity of the crime differs from case to case, but victims’ rights can and should be universal. A review of the CVBR is a vital undertaking that will have universal and positive impacts.
I am confused as to why the Liberals, in my previous asking of this question, used the COVID-19 pandemic as cover for their failure to review the Victims Bill of Rights. Meanwhile, the pandemic has not stopped the government from poring every effort into expanding assisted death to those who live with a disability; in fact, it rushed ahead before MAID’s own five-year statutory review.
The Liberals have not given pause or second thought to targeting law-abiding firearms owners as their first step, while ignoring the real problem of gang crimes and illegal guns.
Canadians are victimized by crime every day. Why is the protection of their rights once again taking a back seat to the Prime Minister’s partisan agenda?
Why has the minister not struck the parliamentary committee yet? What date will it be struck?