44th Parl. 1st Sess.

September 18, 2023 11:00AM

Context: House Hansard - 219 - Sep/18/23

Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC)

Sep/18/23 1:39:56 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-48

Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to my colleague's speech and I think it is important to underline where the fault line actually is in this debate. I think there would be agreement throughout the House that a young person who makes a mistake should have a second chance. Of course, there are many cases where it is legitimate for a person to have bail. We have highlighted these cases of repeat violent offenders who continue to get bail. Somebody who commits a violent crime is on bail for that violent crime and then goes out and kills someone. Clearly, there is a problem in those cases of extremely violent offenders getting bail and committing those offences again. It is a problem that owes a great deal to a decision made by the government, supported by the NDP, to make changes to the bail system when it first took office. We are not talking about the many instances where bail is legitimate. We are talking about these cases of repeat violent offenders. I would like to hear from the member why he does not support our position of reversing those changes, to actually get back to somewhere we were previously on this.

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