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Originally Posted by Slava
Who says that longer terms make the streets safer in the first place? There have been numerous indications that longer/harsher prison terms do little to stop criminal activity. Not surprisngly they just put more people in jail.
But more to your point, if a bill was introduced on May 30 and is through first reading a week later that seems like its moving along quite quickly?
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Thats right....lets try to rehabilitate the young man who shot and killed an 11 year old...because that has worked so well.
As for your second comment, if the senate wants to pass legislation, they could go through all three reading in a week if they wanted to. Not to mention, had the liberals and NDP not had completely gutted the initial legislation, this would have been before the senate much earlier.