Continuing on, in Toronto, a mother of two young children was killed by a stray bullet during a shootout between drug dealers near a supervised injection site. An employee of that centre then helped one of the suspects escape by concealing evidence and arranging his departure. She pleaded guilty yet she will not spend a single day in prison. Can the Liberal government tell us if this is now the norm in Canada, that someone who knowingly helped the killer of a mother of two children will avoid justice and not spend even one day in prison?

This is a tragic story that we all read with great alarm, the tragedy of the deaths. Senator, I’m going to content myself with saying and reminding us, and asking us not to instrumentalize a tragedy such as this in disregard of the actual facts and constitutional responsibilities that are shared and the roles that are shared by police, by prosecutors and by our judiciary.

This is a tragic story. I don’t know and we don’t know the circumstances in that moment of crisis of what motivated the woman to whom you referred.

We join together in mourning the tragedy of the loss of life.

It is a tragic example, but it is shocking because, leader, this offender will be allowed to go to work daily at GoodLife Fitness while two children are left without their mother for the rest of their lives.

Will the Liberal government apologize to the victim’s family for enabling a justice system that seems more concerned with the comfort of criminals than with the memory of victims and public safety?

Senator, the government is not going to apologize for a tragedy that it has no responsibility for, but it grieves — along with all of us — for the loss of life in this tragedy.

Again, I implore us to stay focused on our responsibilities to be factual and constitutionally appropriate where we attribute responsibility.