National Defence committee  In fact, this one is even more so a case where this ought to be added because, as my colleague has pointed out, causing fires normally is associated with arson, which sounds pretty bad. But when you look at the provision itself, again, we've got this maximum of life imprisonment, but only in the case of wilfully causing fires. In any other case than wilfully, the maximum penalty is two years or to less punishment.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  During your presentation, you spoke of 214 attacks being committed. These incidents are mainly attacks against churches and cases of arson. These events have caused deaths and injuries. You talked about government complicity, religious intolerance, inertia in the face of violence and the deterioration of the climate. My first question concerns the Indonesian judiciary.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  If you look at the 250-odd attacks this year, which by the end of the year will be 280 or something, a lot of them are just arson attacks on churches, but when you look at the most violent attacks, ones in which people actually got hurt and died, those tend to be Shia and Ahmadiyya. The Ahmadiyya are a very small minority, so the raw number of attacks is quite small because the community is small, but in terms of viciousness of the attacks...they get spoken about the most rudely and the most dismissively by the government.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Many of these incidents are not violence against people, thankfully; they tend to be attacks on mosques and churches, and mostly arson attacks. But in many of the incidents, local security forces either didn't prevent the attacks, were slow to respond to them, or failed to investigate the attacks. This is a big issue I want to raise, which is the government complicity in these events.

Justice  For too long, Canadians have lost confidence in our justice system because those who commit crimes such as sexual assault, kidnapping or arson would only be sentenced to house arrest. Those of us on the government side believe that people who burn other people's houses down should not be allowed to serve out their sentences in the comfort of their own homes.

Justice  Thanks to this government, conditional sentences or house arrest will no longer be available for serious crimes such as sexual assault, kidnapping, arson or human trafficking. We are cracking down on the use of house arrest despite years of opposition from across the aisle. We will continue with our record of standing up for victims and law-abiding Canadians.

Combating Terrorism Act  For example, the recent fire bomb attack incident in Ottawa against a Royal Bank branch before the G20 summit was treated as a criminal act of arson and no charges were laid under the anti-terrorism provision, et cetera. The president of the Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association of Toronto, Ziyaad Mia, and Nathalie Des Rosiers, general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said that, in their opinions, the bill should not move forward, that it is unnecessary, that it does not offer any solutions and that there are substantial problems.

Combating Terrorism Act  For example, the recent firebombing of a Royal Bank branch in Ottawa, just before the G20 summit, was treated as criminal arson, and so no charge was laid under the anti-terrorism provisions. However, the people who committed that crime could have been charged with terrorism. Need I remind my Conservative colleagues of who Maher Arar and Mr.

Criminal Code  With few exceptions, arson was an offence met upon conviction with the sentence of death, regardless of age. Imagine, setting a grass fire or burning an outhouse led to a sentence of death, without regard to the circumstances.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  After several days, I was informed of additional charges of double murder, double attempted murder, and arson. All of these trumped-up charges are non-bailable. It appeared as though they just wanted me to rot in jail. After 40 years of serving the peasants and the indigenous people, I was considered a criminal, a terrorist, and an enemy of the state.

Little House Society  For 27 years, the Little House Society has been a respectful, committed, community-based enterprise that lost its earlier “Little House” to arson in 2009. Since then, under the leadership of a remarkable citizen, Jim Stimson, the society has engaged the community and over 100 local businesses, re-opening a new meeting and counselling home.

Safe Streets and Communities Act  In addition, a conditional sentence would never be available for offences with a maximum of 14 years or life imprisonment; or for offences with a maximum penalty of 10 years that result in bodily harm or involve the import, export, trafficking or production of drugs or involve the use of a weapon; nor for a range of other offences including kidnapping, theft over $5,000 or motor vehicle theft. Our act would ensure that serious offences, including serious property offences like arson, would also not result in house arrest. This would ensure that jail sentences for such offences are served in jail. Part 4 of the safe streets and communities act proposes amendments to the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

Citizen's Arrest and Self-defence Act  Lives are being destroyed by youth getting hooked on drugs early in life when they virtually had no choice. With respect to arson, we have taken action to make it very unlikely that a person who has burned down someone's house would now be allowed to serve his or her sentence in his or her own house. I have heard from victims of violent crimes whose families have been murdered.

Safe Streets and Communities Act  The reality is that these reforms are carefully tailored and targeted to offenders who commit the most serious offences. Should offenders convicted of arson receive a conditional sentence allowing them to serve out their sentence at home under certain conditions? Should an offender convicted of an offence with a maximum sentence of 14 years ever be permitted to serve that sentence in the comfort of the offender's home?

Public Safety committee  When I first started there, we were getting calls quite often to go and break up fights. We have had arsons, fires. We work four days on and four off, and I went through a four-day set when every day there was something, whether it was a fire, an attempted suicide, or a fight. Now we can go for months without any kind of incident whatsoever.