On Sep 30, MP Joy Smith's bill C-268 on child trafficking law, was adopted after the third reading with a vote of 239 in favor and 46 opposing. The Bill has now moved to the Senate and needs approval before becoming law.
43 BQ MPs and 3 NDP MPs opposed the bill.
Tell me, what sort of a person do you have to be to oppose a bill that will deter child traffickers and if not deterred , clamp down mandatory sentences on the scum? In my personal opinion, the MPs who are opposing Bill C-268 are not representing their constituents because I refuse to believe that any thinking person would want to keep a child trafficker from going to jail.
As Timea Nagy, a former victim of human trafficking, sat in gallery of the House of Commons watching the vote on C-268, she felt horrified that anyone would vote against such legislation.
“I don’t understand how anyone could feel that five years in jail is too much for those who offer children for sale,” said Timea Nagy. “What if it were their child that was trafficked? Would they still have voted the same way?”
Once the Bill becomes Law, there will be a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years, rising upward to 14 years for any one found guilty of trafficking in persons under 18 years of age. Additional penalties will be imposed on the guility if the victim is subjected to aggravated sexual assault, kidnapping, forcible confinement or killed. If a victim is killed, the mandatory minimum sentence will be 6 years.
Shame on the 43 Bloc Quebecois MPs and the 3 NDP MPs who opposed this Bill. I wanted to hunt around for a listing of all these idiots and post their names here for everybody to see, but took a few minutes to calm myself down and have refrained from doing so.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
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Here you go:
ReplyDeletehttp://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=2&DocId=3823636#Div-49
No need to hunt around and burn up your time, reders can google How Did They Vote. It's all there.
ReplyDeleteNo problem, I'll find em and post em...
ReplyDeleteThanks Hunter and Rob.C - I learn something new every single day.
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Platty - the names are listed in the link above.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the MPs, despite your gut reaction, do indeed want tougher stands taken against human trafficking but found the bill, as it stands today, incomplete and potentially ineffective.
ReplyDeleteInstead of engaging in the typical conservative practice of looking for something to hate, why not look to the reasons it was done and think your way through it?
Um, what happened to my previous comment?
ReplyDeleteGaryB - oh shut up already. The blab blah blah given as an excuse from the BQ and posted on the cesspool blog from where you have just climbed out to post your comment, goes to show how you have been blind sided. As such, your comment is meaningless and useless just like the explanation given the BQ.
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