Madam Speaker, I welcome the question because it is a good one, and they are not. It is not redundant. In practice, as well as in the law, we need to have an amendment to clarify, to ensure that people who have committed violent crimes cannot claim asylum and to not give lenient sentences.
There are many instances now where the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act needs modernization. The definition of “serious crime” needs to be updated so that judges cannot use loopholes to give people leniency and avoid deportation. The Criminal Code needs to be updated as well, which is why I have a private member's bill in front of the House. The Liberals and the House could pass those things today, expedite them and end these processes.
I am very happy to work with my colleague through these bills, but he is wrong. He is hearing what lawyers and powerful lobby groups that profit off of these systems are saying, and he is not hearing the practical reality of—