Madam Speaker, I enjoy serving with my colleague on the justice committee.
I am glad that, in his remarks, he made mention of the fact that there is clear, demonstrable evidence that mandatory minimums do not work, yet the Conservatives keep on pursuing this as a policy ideal. It is the same with their drug policy. All of the experts on the ground have told us that a Conservative approach is absolutely the wrong thing at this moment in time.
I am just wondering if my hon. colleague could comment on the damage it does to public policy-making and the quality of debate on these two very important subjects when one party is spreading this kind of misinformation.