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House Hansard - 131

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 21, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 131 - Nov/21/22
Hon. Rob Moore (Fundy Royal, CPC)
  • Nov/21/22 2:59:52 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, earlier today, Statistics Canada reported that the homicide rate in Canada is the highest it has been since 2005, the last year the Liberals were in government in their previous government. In fact, violent crime has risen 32% since the Liberals last took government, but now they want to make it worse: They are letting violent criminals back onto the street after committing serious drug, gang and gun crime. Will the minister listen to communities, to the police and to victims and abandon his plan to let violent criminals back onto the streets?
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Context: House Hansard - 131 - Nov/21/22
Hon. Rob Moore (Fundy Royal, CPC)
  • Nov/21/22 3:01:17 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that is just factually incorrect. The mandatory minimum penalties the government is eliminating were mandatory minimums put in place by the Prime Minister's father. The minister says that under the government, maximum sentences of 10 years or more are increasing, but do members know how often they have been given out? It is zero percent of the time. When the minister talks about increasing maximum penalties, what he is really saying is that we are not going to do anything about violent crime. Will the minister please abandon his soft-on-crime approach and take gun crime seriously in this country?
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