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House Hansard - 100

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 22, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 100 - Sep/22/22
Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)
  • Sep/22/22 2:58:51 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, serious crimes will always carry serious consequences. That is the basic principle. What we are trying to do with Bill C-5 is to make sure we can concentrate our resources on those serious crimes, whether in the judicial system or in enforcing our police— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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Context: House Hansard - 100 - Sep/22/22
Hon. David Lametti
  • Sep/22/22 2:59:27 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, the fundamental point is that serious crimes will always carry serious consequences. What we are doing with Bill C-5 is ensuring that we have more resources to focus on those serious crimes and ensuring that our police authorities have more tools in their tool kit to deal with them. A former justice of the Supreme Court, Michael Moldaver, in an article he published this week, told us that we should go precisely in that direction, to focus our resources on those serious crimes and incarcerate less people, and nobody can accuse Justice Moldaver of being soft on crime.
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Context: House Hansard - 100 - Sep/22/22
Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)
  • Sep/22/22 3:00:45 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, serious crimes, such as those described by my hon. colleague, will always carry serious consequences. What Bill C-5 would do is that in cases where a sentence would be less than two years and, most important, there would no threat to public safety or public security, it would allow for a better alternative to incarceration in those cases. This precisely allows us to focus our resources in the criminal justice system on those serious crimes, which we all agree we need to treat quite seriously.
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Context: House Hansard - 100 - Sep/22/22
Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)
  • Sep/22/22 3:02:03 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, the reality is quite the opposite of what the hon. member is saying. Serious crimes will always have serious consequences in our system. What we are doing with Bill C-5 is abolishing an ineffective strategy that clogged up the criminal justice system, so we can focus on serious crimes that should have serious consequences.
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