Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to join this adjournment debate and talk about a question I asked a few weeks ago in question period.
I asked the member from northern Saskatchewan about food bank usage in Saskatchewan. In Saskatchewan, 35.1% of children live in a food-insecure household. However, the answer I got was really found lacking. The member from northern Saskatchewan sometimes goes off on a bit of a rant here and there, and he did not answer the question at all. He talked about what the Liberals were going to do, that they might build houses and that they might do this or that.
Tomorrow, the budget will be presented, and we are asking to have an affordable budget so that Canadians can have an affordable life. The response I got from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice was interesting, because I talked about the member from northern Saskatchewan leaving his constituents behind. He has been in favour of the firearms confiscation plan. He has been in favour of the industrial carbon tax. He is in favour of food taxes, such as the industrial carbon tax, the packaging tax and the carbon tax 2.0, known as fuel regs. There is no place in Saskatchewan where food is more expensive than in northern Saskatchewan, so he has really done a disservice to his community members, especially the children.
On the topic of children, my son was here with me last week. He came and watched the proceedings. He asked, “Dad, why don't you just say what you want?” In honour of my son's giving me that very good advice, I will take a few minutes and talk about something that hit me very hard as a father over the weekend, and that is the Supreme Court ruling on two despicable human beings who had hundreds of cases of child abuse on video and in pictures. From this graphic material, these kids are never going to be the same. We, as Conservatives, said that we would use the notwithstanding clause and make sure that these dirtbags got the sentences they deserved.
Over there, it is very rare, because we follow, and I had my staff follow every Liberal and NDP member over the weekend, and not one of them commented on this ruling. They will crawl over broken glass to find a microphone on any other cause, but they did not say one thing about this Supreme Court ruling and how these two individuals should be locked up and the key should be thrown away and never recovered. If we are not going to stand up as a group in the House of Commons, as members of Parliament, and say that we need to protect our children, then our country has no hope.
This is something that needs to be changed, and as a father of three beautiful children, I have been struggling with this over the last few days. Even in our small town, we had a case of this. They went to court and got off on bail that day and were back in our community. We need to come together as a group, as members of the House of Commons, and say that these scumbags should never see the light of day.