Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is my neighbour in Yellowhead.
People think that if we put in strong sentences, more and more people will go to jail, but the facts show otherwise. Strong sentences deter people from going to jail, and the police have to deal less with people committing offence after offence. In fact when I was in my riding, in Drayton Valley, I talked to an RCMP officer who said he had arrested a drug trafficker who was released mere hours after they were arrested. The fact is that our police are overwhelmed by the failed Liberal bail system; we have a revolving door justice system.
I spoke earlier in a question about the Office of the Correctional Investigator. The correctional investigator talked about the government's chronic underfunding of mental health and programs in prisons. Conservatives want to put people behind bars, but we want people who come out of prison to at least have skills, training and better mental health so they do not commit more crimes. The correctional investigator is resigning two years early because the government—