The latest Statistics Canada figures support the growing feeling among Canadians that our cities are no longer safe
The key event that occurred around the time that violent crime began to rise was the election of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who promised a soft-on-crime approach and leniency toward offenders. Instead of locking criminals in cages, he intended to use a free-range approach.Article contentto the tough-on-crime approach of his Conservative predecessors as “incoherent,” and drawing from an “ideological grab bag of repression and meanness.
Under former prime minister Stephen Harper, laws were introduced to create mandatory minimum sentences for specific offences, creating democratically set floors on criminal punishment, and to make it harder for judges to sentence certain offenders to house arrest. The Parole Board of Canada was given more latitude to consider the severity of a criminal’s actions when deciding whether to grant a release. The ability to pardon serious offenders was eliminated. Harper also made it easier for officers to arrest offenders who seemed to be breaching their release conditions, and it was made more difficult for those who had committed multiple murders to be paroled.
The general aim was to keep violent and repeat offenders off the streets and behind bars. The necessity of such measures is now clear for all to see, as municipalities across the country witness large numbers of crimes committed by a small number of chronic offenders, while murders and other violence offences are committed by criminals who are out on bail or statutory release.Article content
Although many of the Harper-era criminal justice reforms were eventually struck down by the courts, the Trudeau Liberals have consistently gone a step further: introducing laws to repeal a host of mandatory minimum sentences; instructing police and courts to favour release over detention; mandating that Correctional Services of Canada place inmates in “the least restrictive environment”; and repealing other Conservative reforms that the courts had not taken exception to.
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