So, has Stockwell Day just snapped, had a breakdown or what's the idea here?
Build it and they will come?
WTF?
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Politics/2...-crime-100803/
Quote:
Day says new prisons needed for 'unreported crimes'
Liberal MP Mark Holland accused the government of trying to justify a bad policy with non-existent statistics. If anything, he said, reporting of sexual crime -- which is historically under-reported -- has increased over the years as the stigma has lessened.
But even if the minister is correct, Holland wondered how that would result in the need for more prison spaces.
"You need prisons to lock up people who are not being charged? Unless you are suggesting throwing away habeas corpus and rounding up everybody who looks suspicious, it makes no sense."
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