Working with law enforcement and provincial partners is more effective than trying to scare people for votes.

My decision does not decide guilt or innocence, as that will rest with the courts.

Our responsibility is to make sure Canadians can trust their justice system, and that means, in rare cases, returning cases to the courts for new information to be considered.

AI is rapidly changing the world and the right path forward will involve careful steps where we use new tools to ensure that we can deal with backlogs and systems to ensure that we’re reducing the reliance on taxpayers’ money to deliver…

The government will take the next few weeks to review it before responding with a decision.

I’m highly confident that we will find a highly skilled jurist that will fill the vacancy that Justice Martin leaves.

“This bill, very importantly, was not designed behind closed doors on Parliament Hill. Its strength is really from the source of collaboration we’ve had from different partners from across the country,”

“We’ve taken a major step forward,” he added. “And the reason why we were able to do it is because we’ve done it together.”

Importantly to me, I’m also going to be reviewing the witness testimony upon which those recommendations were based.

I expect that this appointment will be made imminently… we’ll be moving as quick as we possibly can.

I would be careful not to paint all provinces and territories with a single brush because they’re in unique sets of circumstances that don’t necessarily reflect the experience of one province in a neighbouring province.

My mind certainly doesn't go to that place as a first option. I want to have an opportunity to actually understand the recommendation, to review some of the testimony, to engage with stakeholders across Canada to some degree on my own…

I have no reservations about the quality of candidates who are going to come through the process.

We’re going to take the time to digest the report.

The law is designed to target some of the most frequent causes of concern we hear in our engagement with communities across Canada.

This isn’t easy work, which is why I’m going to take the time necessary to fully understand the recommendations of the committee and the evidence that underpins those recommendations.

We've taken a major step forward but we also know that there's more to do.

The new law is central to the federal government's public safety strategy and was specifically crafted to keep the country and its people safer by addressing their concerns.

It has a unique focus, of course, on both bail and sentencing, with specific measures that are designed to target some of the most frequent causes of concern we hear in our engagement with communities across Canada.

We expect, by the end of the week, we could see the Combating Hate Act, which is being debated in Parliament behind me at this very moment, and the Protecting Victims Act, which is at the final stages of the Senate, to potentially become…

If I’m satisfied the committee has had an opportunity to reach thoughtful conclusions based on the advice of those who are most knowledgeable, most experienced with the issues, then there’s a good chance we may align with the…

By continuing the spirit of collaboration, we’re going to be able to build a safer country. We’ve taken a major step forward last night and the reason we were able to do it is because we’ve done it together.

You don't have to give up your freedoms in order to ensure people can live safe in a society.

I think it’s incumbent upon governments to recognize, as society changes, as technological adoption increases, that we are respectful of people’s rights, but at the same time that we can make moves to address modern challenges.