Power and Politics I was lucky enough to be invited to be interviewed on CBC’s Power and Politics. The invitation was a result of another invitation to speak at the Discussion Panel mentioned in the previous post. It all concerns the pardon changes that took place over a year ago as a result of the Conservative’s [...]
National Pardon Blog
Bill C-23, Crime Bill, National Pardon Centre, pardon
Pardon Changes – CBC Power and Politics – 1 year later
Bill C-23, Crime Bill, National Pardon, National Pardon Centre, Pardon and Waiver service
Pardon The Agenda
The Conservatives not only want to send more people to jail more often and for longer periods of time, they want to make sure that those who finally get out will not work a decent job for as long as possible. They want to prevent people from obtaining a pardon. In this day and age [...]
Canadian Pardons, Crime Bill, National Pardon Centre, Record Suspension
Happy New Year from the National Pardon Centre
I would like to wish everyone a very happy and prosperous new year for 2012. The past couple of years presented a lot of challenges in the pardon business due to the Conservative government’s assault on criminal justice (this was the phrase of a colleague I could not resist re-using). Although Bill C23-B has not [...]
Crime Bill
Tories Willing to Discuss Crime Bill?
Sometimes what bothers me about this crime bill is not how bad most of the measures are. After all we all have different values and if the Conservatives value punishment over rehabilitation that is their prerogative. It isn’t even that the measures don’t have a faint hope of accomplishing what they are supposed to. I [...]
Bill C-23, Crime Bill, pardon
John Howard Society Letter to the Premier and Justice Minister of Manitoba
October 28th, 2011 Premier Greg Selinger Attorney General Andrew Swan On behalf of the John Howard Society of Manitoba, I am writing to ask that your government speak out against Bill C-10, currently being debated in Ottawa, on the grounds that it will have dire consequences for Manitoba if implemented. In doing so, you would [...]
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