Mr. Speaker, how many women have to be beaten half to death before the government stops giving repeat offenders a free pass?
Hugh Mason is 34 years old with a violent history that reads like a warning label: assault, assault with a weapon, uttering threats, resisting arrest, theft, breaching probation. Over and over again, in just three years, he has been hauled into court and released 37 times, and now he is on video shoving a woman into the street, brutally kicking and punching her as she crawls away for her life.
That happened last week, just a few kilometres from my home in Langley. I walk those streets. My kids and grandkids walk those streets. It is happening because the government is protecting violent criminals rather than innocent Canadians.
Why will the Liberal government not fix the broken bail system and stop putting dangerous predators back on the streets?