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House Hansard - 86

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 10, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 86 - Jun/10/22
Mr. Blaine Calkins (Red Deer—Lacombe, CPC)
  • Jun/10/22 11:22:15 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP-Liberal government continues to ram through legislation that has criminals jumping for joy. Criminals who steal people's wallets at gunpoint, shoot up the neighbourhood, traffic in weapons or use a gun in their other criminal activities are one step closer to reduced sentences. Liberals claim it is to address overrepresentation of Black and indigenous people in the corrections system, but they ignore that these same communities are the ones most often victimized by gun crime. How is it that the government lacks so much compassion for victims and people at risk of violent crime?
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Context: House Hansard - 86 - Jun/10/22
Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)
  • Jun/10/22 11:22:54 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, our government is moving forward to make the criminal justice system safer for communities, make it better for victims and make it much more fair and just. What we are doing with Bill C-5 is attacking overrepresentation in the criminal justice system of Black and indigenous people by taking those offenders who do not pose a risk to public security and making conditional sentence orders available to more crimes and by reducing around 20 minimum mandatory penalties. We are also raising the sentences for serious—
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Context: House Hansard - 86 - Jun/10/22
Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)
  • Jun/10/22 11:58:21 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, Bill C‑5 is designed specifically to address the issue of Black and indigenous overrepresentation in our criminal justice system, by giving judges the flexibility to impose a sentence that is proportional to the crime. We will support victims. We are supporting victims. Serious offences will always have serious consequences. We need to address this overrepresentation, and that is exactly what we are doing.
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