Mr. Speaker, I will speak to two provisions briefly. The Criminal Code already states that sentencing needs to consider the impact on a victim. My colleague is absolutely right. However, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act also clearly states that a non-citizen who has been convicted of a serious crime should be deported. This is for any serious crime, because there is a victim in any crime but especially in serious ones.
What has happened through the Pham decision is that activist judges have perverted the original ruling, subverted the rule of Parliament, proliferated a set of leniencies for non-citizens convicted of serious crimes like sexual assault, and undermined public confidence in both the justice system and the immigration system. This is no way to uphold a pluralism. In fact, that is how a pluralism falls apart. Maybe that is what the Liberals want. After a decade of postnationalism, saying there is no national identity and eroding the rule of law, this where we are at. They need to support this bill.