[Maritime Q-Scout]

Woke up to drive my parents to the airport. The first thing my father told me when I walked through his front door was that they caught him.

The car ride to the airport was discussing what happened and what will happen.

My mother said she read an article a few years ago about a reporter that interviewed Paul Bernardo. Seeing him, the conditions he lived in, and spending 15 seconds in a solitary confinement cell freaked the reporter out so badly that he gave up journalism.

People think that prison is a walk in the park. That it's a resort. That because prisoners are given uniforms to wear and a 3 basic meals a day that they are on vacation in Hawaii. This guy likely won't ever cut his supper with a knife and fork again. He'll never experience a vacation down south. He'll never get to see his sports teams play live. He'll never get to go to a friends wedding, bachelor party, or have one himself. His life is over and he's got to spend the rest of it in a cell. While I would have slept soundly if he was shot and killed wet night, death would be too easy.

We hear of how lax our justice system is. We hear snippets and half truths and take them at face value. We don't read sentencing decisions, nor the principles of sentencing. We assume the justice system is vengeance based and it's not.

Ideally I wish this didn't happen. I wish my friends and family weren't locked in their homes with a gunman running around their neighbourhood.

That said it happened. Based on that I hope his neighbours are Paul Bernado and Col. Williams.