https://apple.news/AwdDQ1r9PQRKRFbbXacgw3A
Quote:
“I can’t believe I have to say this: but when I’m PM, there will be no male prisoners in female jails. Period.”
He was responding to a recent horror story out of Quebec. One Mohamad Al Ballouz brutally killed his wife and two sons in 2022, and last week was sentenced to life in prison with no shot at parole for 25 years. Because he now identifies as “Levana,” Al Ballouz has asked to serve that sentence in a women’s prison, the Joliette Institution for Women.
|
Quote:
The prime minister accelerated, exposing female prisoners to violent male offenders all because of one self-interested activist at a town hall.
The rest of the country, for the most part, isn’t on board with any of this. Just under 80 per cent of Canadians believe that it’s “somewhat important” or “very important” to segregate prisons by sex, according to 2023 polling by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. A little more than 70 per cent believed that trans prisoners should be kept away from female inmates.
|
Finally, let’s look out for the safety of women.