Mr. Speaker, after nine years of NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up.
Under this soft-on-crime Liberal government, car theft is up 34%, including being up by over 300% in Toronto. We know that in Ontario, 68% of those convicted for an auto theft-related offence serve a sentence of six months or less. Just recently, we learned that Ontario's carjacking task force made 124 arrests between September 2023 and March 2024. Shockingly, nearly half of the people arrested by the task force were out on bail at the time of their arrest, and 61% of those offenders were subsequently released on bail yet again.
This crime wave is a direct result of this government's soft-on-crime, catch-and-release policies, which repealed mandatory minimum sentences and made bail more accessible to criminals. Tomorrow, on behalf of all Canadians, there is a chance to bring down this costly government and stop the crime. Will the NDP-Liberal government let Canadians decide in a carbon tax election?