Trudeau Is Endangering Children With His Criminals First Approach

November 19, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ottawa, ON – After nine years, the NDP-Liberal government has made Canadians unsafe. Justin Trudeau’s catch and release policies have caused violent crime to increase by 50 percent while his soft-on-crime policies and the broken justice system continues to make life easier for the most violent of offenders. 

This is evident from the fact Terri-Lynne McClintic, who abducted and then assisted her boyfriend in the sexually-motivated killing of eight-year-old Tori Stafford in 2009, has been allowed to be in the presence of children through a mother-child program at a women’s federal penitentiary. 

Trudeau has broken our justice system so thoroughly that sex offenders and killers, including those who are serving sentences for killing children, have access to children in prison. It is appalling that sex offenders operate on the “honour system” to avoid children in prison and that the Trudeau Government could continue to allow it. 

After nine years, Canadians have come to expect this from the Trudeau Government. Time after time, they have disregarded the rights and safety of Canadians, just as they did when they allowed Paul Bernardo to be moved from a maximum-security facility.  Justin Trudeau created this problem by passing Bill C-83, which ensures that even the worst of the worst, like Paul Bernardo, Luca Magnotta and Terri-Lynne McClintic must be incarcerated in “the least restrictive environment”. He has unleashed a crime wave across our country with disastrous policies like C-5, which took away mandatory jail for violent crime and allowed sex offenders to serve their sentences in the same home as their victims under house arrest. Bill C-75 also made it easier for repeat violent offenders to be given bail. 

The NDP-Liberal government must be held accountable for these egregious failures. Only Common Sense Conservatives will prioritize the rights of victims and the safety of Canadians and will ensure sex offenders and murderers no longer have access to children in our prisons.