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House Hansard - 105

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 29, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 105 - Sep/29/22
Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)
  • Sep/29/22 3:04:54 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, serious crimes in the country will always carry with them serious consequences. Indeed, the crimes the hon. member is talking about do attract serious penalties. What we would be doing with Bill C-5 is entirely the opposite. Failed Conservative policies on tough-on-crime, with minimum mandatory penalties and no possibility of conditional sentence orders, have only clogged the justice system with less serious cases that have resulted in the over-incarceration of indigenous, Black and racialized people in our system. We are removing those to spend more time and more resources precisely on the offences about which he is talking.
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Context: House Hansard - 105 - Sep/29/22
Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)
  • Sep/29/22 3:06:15 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, I would invite the hon. member to actually look at the transcript of that Senate hearing. If he believes an indigenous woman with a problematic addiction, who is trying to keep bread on the table for her three children, sells some prescription drugs on the side and then gets tackled with a minimum mandatory penalty, is the kind of serious offender we need to lock up for that period of time, I would suggest he is absolutely wrong. Bill C-5 would allow us to allow people like that mother to get the help they need, all the while spending more time, judicial resources and penal resources on the serious drug traffickers.
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Context: House Hansard - 105 - Sep/29/22
Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)
  • Sep/29/22 3:07:38 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-5 
Mr. Speaker, I am a Quebecker, I am a Montrealer, and I am aware of what is happening in Montreal, both in my riding as well as in other ridings in Montreal. Our goal with Bill C-5 is to increase resources to deal with serious crimes, which will always have serious consequences. With Bill C-21, we are increasing the maximum penalties for firearms offences. We are moving in the right direction to get tough on the crimes that deserve it.
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