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On 6/18/26 11:20 AM, Rhino wrote:
After many, many casess of people who committed serious crimes while out on bail, our Liberal overlords have finally granted us peasants changes to the laws making it harder for *some* violent offenders from getting bail quite as easily.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-bail-sentencing-reform-police-expert-reactions-9.7239382
While many including police chiefs are welcoming the changes, which take effect in a few weeks, notice how the CBC makes a determined effort to find "experts" who moan about how the changes won't work.
rCLWe know that Indigenous folks, Black folks, people with mental health [and] substance abuse issues are disadvantaged at obtaining bail," she said.
Then deny bail for all.
"What this law reform seeks to do is, frankly, keep more people behind bars,rCY
It saves them from hurting other people.
said Richards, noting that a "tough-on-crime" approach doesn't address root causes of crime like substance abuse and poverty.
One of the root causes of crime is the systematized ideology that crime
is a progressive act of liberation from tyranny, and a positive good
because "whitey don't like it". Lots of things whitey don't like,
but that's no proof that what whitey hates is always good.
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