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House Hansard - 219

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 18, 2023 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 219 - Sep/18/23
Mr. Pat Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge, CPC)
  • Sep/18/23 5:25:18 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-48 
Madam Speaker, I listened to the member's speech, and he devoted quite a bit of it to referring to the requests from the various chiefs of police for this legislation and took credit for the government's doing what it has been asked by these chiefs. The reason the chiefs of police were asking for this legislation is the damage the government has done to the bail system and the emergence of a small number of chronic offenders who make up such a disproportionate number of arrests. Will the member apologize for the government's failed approach that got us to this point?
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Context: House Hansard - 219 - Sep/18/23
Mr. Pat Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge, CPC)
  • Sep/18/23 5:39:14 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-48 
Madam Speaker, the member left out of his remarks that, under the government over the past eight years, we have seen the reversal of a decades-long trend of lower rates of crime and lower rates of incarceration. We have also seen the emergence of chronic, repeat violent offenders running amok in Canadian cities and burdening local police, who repeatedly arrest the same people. They arrest them over and over again. This bill is, in part, damage control; it is undoing what the government did in its first Parliament. Will the member take this opportunity to admit that the Liberals' approach has been wrong and that they will be reversing the approach that got us to this point?
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Context: House Hansard - 219 - Sep/18/23
Mr. Pat Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge, CPC)
  • Sep/18/23 6:12:06 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-48 
Madam Speaker, the member did a great job in her speech of going through the litany of what has unravelled in our criminal justice system under the current government. During the debate, the Liberals are stepping back, as if they have had nothing to do with the problem that needs to be fixed, and they are taking credit for just following the recommendations the provinces made on bail reform. Could the member take a moment to again reinforce the extent to which specific actions the Liberal government has undertaken over the last eight years have brought us to where we are today?
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