An early school lesson for Canada’s kids from a member of Canada’s judiciary, again?
No—sometimes you just can’t add anything to a headline.
Read the stories here and here.
Our own columnist Anthony Oluwatoyin said in his August 25 column on drug offenders (speaking with regard to drug offences, not manslaughter):
Canada lacks the American stomach for “mandatories”. Cotler rejected it even of sentencing. “Research shows mandatory minimums don’t serve as a deterrent and actually have the opposite effect,” he said.
The police beg to differ. “They have to go with mandatory minimum sentencing if they really want to resolve the problem,” says Tony Cannavino, President of the Canadian Professional Police Association. “We all know that judges will never give those high sentences,” he said.
Constable Todd Sweet, New Westminster trustee of the BC Federation of Police Officers, echoes the sentiment: “When was the last time anyone came close to getting that [previous] maximum sentence [of 10 years]? The answer is never.”
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