Why Poilievre wants Mendicino to resign over latest Bernardo transfer reports
The report cited the Correctional Service of Canada as saying it first alerted Mendicino’s office on March 2 to inform officials that Bernardo would be transferred fromCSC said it sent a second email on May 25 to Mendicino’s office saying Bernardo would be transferred four days later, CBC News reported. The minister’s office told the outlet it did not tell Mendicino about Bernardo’s transfer until May 30 – the day after the transfer happened.
“These are too many lies,” he said. “It’s one lie too many. It is time for Marco Mendicino to resign.”Mendicino told reporters on Tuesday afternoon: “I personally found out the week that the decision was rendered.”“It’s important as well to underscore that these decisions are not typically public because of security concerns, because of privacy concerns that are well established in the law,” he said.
Bernardo, 58, has been serving a life sentence for the kidnappings, tortures and murders of teenagers Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy in the early 1990s. He and his then-wife Karla Homolka also killed her younger sister, Tammy Homolka.
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