If it was up to the leader of the opposition in Ottawa, we would throw all mass murderers in maximum security prisons. He also wants to have a bill passed through parliament dictating that this should be the law. No doubt many Canadians would agree with him. And maybe that is why he called a news conference to tell the media about this important thing he thinks he is going to do.
But despite the fact that Mr. Poilievre seems to know very little about our prison system, you would think he would have a former criminal lawyer in his conservative caucus. He could have asked some advice from someone who knew the system and how it works.
And no, you cannot lock the felon up and throw away the key. As disgusted and angry as you might be with someone, they are still a human. Justice is not revenge. The judge’s duty is done when the person is found guilty of the crime(s) and a sentence has been pronounced. From that point the miscreant becomes the responsibility of the prison system. And nobody, for a moment, considers getting even for what the criminal has done.
To add carelessness to stupidity, Mr. Poilievre complains that prime minister Trudeau has done nothing about the current Bernardo conflab. Mr. Trudeau has done nothing because he has gone on a secret trip to the Ukraine to communicate with his counterpart in Kiyv. If Mr. Poilievre had the good sense to swear to the secrecy of information he is supplied, he might have been told where Mr. Trudeau had gone.
But I also remember the hew and cry that took place after Paul Bernardo’s wife, Karla Homolka, was released after serving just 12 years for the murder of the two Ontario school girls. Her shorter sentence was as result of a plea bargain that made it a much shorter trial for her disgusting husband and sending him off to prison for life as a “dangerous offender.”
It is supposed that just where they would incarcerate Paul Bernardo would be left up to the prison system. I suppose if he ever wandered off from his prison, there would be heads falling in the prison department. I am sure they are taking adequate provisions to ensure that does not happen.
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