[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Will people please stop saying things like "So a drunk driver who kills a bunch of people gets 5 years, and joe protester is going to get 10 years? What a joke".

You can't have it both ways guys. You can't complain that the Canadian justice system is way to lenient and then assume that every protester is going to get the maximum sentence for their crime when clearly that is not how the rest of the system works.

Yes it's a travesty that there are cases where people are woefully under-sentenced, and that needs to be fixed, but as a few people have pointed out, the 10 years is the MAXIMUM, and if we use the track record of sentencing to date, is unlikely to ever be handed out.

As for the comments about this is stupd and we should be focusing on stiffer penalties for other crimes, that's also irrelevant. If all we ever focused on was more severe crimes, we'd only have laws that state you get a bazillion years for rape and murder, and no laws against everything else. Of course there are other parts of the justice system that could use some tweaking, or a total overhaul, but that doesn't mean we should ignore other areas until all the big problems are 100% fixed.