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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Wtf are you babbling about? I said I took offence to someone saying he paid the price for his crime, he didn't. Is recklessly taking someones life worth one year? If you got drunk and shot someone in the head and killed them is that worth one year? If someone killed your mother while bombed out of their mind would you be ok with them serving a year? I don't know MacT on a personal level, he might be the nicest guy in the world now but to say he paid the price for his stupidity is just not true.
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I’m not going to disagree with anything you’ve said, and I’d be devestated if that was my family.
Yes he only spent one year in jail, but he has truly tried to make amends and spent a lot of his life trying to educate people on the dangers of DUI.
From an article about him
“ MacTavish paid for his crime, not only by doing time, but by speaking at numerous schools about the dangers of drunk driving and by serving as the honorary chairman of Edmonton’s CheckStop anti-drunk-driving program. He also forged a bond with Kim Radley’s parents, Ron and Hazel Foote. They visited MacTavish in jail and forgave him for his crime. Out of this visit came a relationship that has lasted to this day, with Hazel still sending a card to MacTavish on his birthday.
“I have a great deal of respect for Craig MacTavish,” she says. “He was a young man who made a tragic mistake and was extremely sorry for it. I regard him very highly.”