Hon. James S. Cowan (Leader of the Opposition):

Honourable senators, I hesitate to intrude on this self-congratulatory exchange between the honourable senators opposite, but I cannot help but draw to the attention of the leader and ask for her comments on the testimony given by Steve Sullivan, the outgoing Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime, before the Commons Public Safety Committee on Tuesday. He said that the government's tough-on-crime agenda is not helping the victims of crime and that the government is falling seriously short in its efforts to help them. He said that the government is talking a lot about being tough on crime and about making Canada's streets safer by putting more people in jail for longer periods of time, but it is ignoring and short-changing the victims of those crimes. Would the Leader of the Government in the Senate care to comment?

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