Mr. Speaker, the member is quite right. I heard the Liberal members across the way say that a convicted criminal would not be able to get their refugee status recognized. Even if that were true, and it is not, the problem right now is that they get to spend seven or eight years in appeals before they actually leave, during which time we have to pay their bills.
I have asked the Liberal members to tell us what in this motion they are against: barring non-citizens convicted of serious crimes from making refugee claims, barring non-citizens with active judicial proceedings related to serious crimes from making refugee claims, ending the practice of leniency to non-citizens convicted of serious crimes to avoid deportation, or repealing Liberal bail and Liberal house arrest.
Which of those individual measures are they opposed to? Let them say it out loud so Canadians can understand their real agenda.