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House Hansard - 49

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 30, 2022 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 49 - Mar/30/22
Mr. Frank Caputo (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, CPC)
  • Mar/30/22 5:30:58 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the citizens of Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo. My hon. colleague and I do agree on a number of points, one of which is that there is a necessity to keep and to lower incarceration rates for marginalized people. Now, where he and I part company is when he frames the discussion as one around retribution. The courts in this country have consistently highlighted the need for denunciation and deterrence, and part of denunciation and deterrence comes by way of sentencing. When we are talking about shooting at people, these are not the low-risk, first-time offenders, necessarily, that the hon. member highlighted. How does he reconcile those concepts?
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Context: House Hansard - 49 - Mar/30/22
Mr. Iqwinder Gaheer
  • Mar/30/22 5:31:45 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Madam Speaker, I disagree with the premise of my hon. colleague's question. These policies have been shown through data to affect marginalized communities, and by repealing them, we are helping those communities and those individuals who were targeted to rejoin society. The way the policies are currently set up, they are focused on retribution, and we are trying to change that.
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