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In the midst of a rather heated exchange with Liberal Mark Holland yesterday, Vic Toews, the Public Safety Minister, offered this.

Mr. Speaker, the kind of prison cities that the Liberals build are for ordinary citizens to be barred in their own homes because they are scared to be out on the streets. Our government believes that it is criminals who should be behind bars and ordinary citizens entitled to walk the streets when they feel like it.

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