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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I guess the legal question is can we apply the Canadian Concept of cruel and unusual punishment to every case.
I agree in this case 30 years is really excessive, but I don't think that there can be a blanket statement on this.
If the State has lets say the three strikes rule like California I believe has it, do we accept a triple time violent offender because our sensibilities say that life without parole is cruel and unusual punishment.
Or lets say a terrorist facing a death penalty in a middle eastern country shows up here after bombing the crap out of a market full of kids, do we send him back?
I think that right now the thought of how this effects our relations with the U.S. is irrelevant, frankly our relations with the American's are at the lowest point since Trudeau was in office, and this isn't going to change that.
I do think that in terms of the 30 year old having sex with the 16 year old which is defined as a criminal activity in the states is punishable, but not by 30 years.
But it wasn't too long ago that we had an escaped sexual offender show up in the States and they refused to send him back.
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Wasn't he a US citizen that fled back to the US, and Canada didn't feel like extraditing him back?
Anyway, it would be an interesting precendent, if all you had to do was commit a crime in your country that wasn't on the books here to be able to get asylum.