Madam Speaker, I first want to thank my colleague and the Bloc Québécois for their position on this bill. It is very important that we work together to implement the changes it proposes. I will continue in English in order to be more clear.
My colleague has raised a very real concern about the number of people in Canada facing pretrial detention. The right answer, in my view, insists that we implement a framework designed to protect the public's safety. This will engage conversations, particularly at provincial levels, about the resources necessary to deal with bail hearings expeditiously and to make sure there are enough police on the ground, enough prosecutors, enough judges to make bail decisions and enough administrative support for the courts to do their jobs.
If we extend the logic of the fear I have heard, which is very real, from people who have raised similar points, we would end up concluding that the right solution to process challenges is to weaken Canada's criminal laws. I disagree with that approach, but I invite a healthy conversation during committee proceedings about what resources should be in place and which levels of government have such responsibilities. That will ensure we do not just have strong laws on paper; we have a system that has the capacity to implement them.