Canada abandons justice

I am totally ashamed to be a Canadian these days. Every single day, there is something in the news that is beyond comprehension.

Someone charged with murder gets his sentence reduced to manslaughter because he didn’t “pre-plan” stabbing someone to death and then when convicted gets no jail time because he was too drunk to know what he was doing. Even worse, the judge says sentencing him to jail time won't bring back the victim.

That has to be the stupidest excuse for letting someone off that I have ever heard.

Then there is the kidnapper who was convicted of participating in a brutal murder who gets sent to a healing camp for rehabilitation instead of life in prison.

How about a convicted murder getting a disability pension (because his dad was a veteran) in prison for his PTSD that he admits was caused from committing the murder itself? And then when the federal opposition parties try to get it stopped, the Liberals out-vote them to keep it going.

Only in Canada, I say, only in Canada.

There are some U.S. citizens who say they want to immigrate to Canada because they don’t like Trump, however, when they realize that we have no understanding of what punishment is in Canada and how wonderfully we treat murderers, I’m sure we’ll hear the swoosh as they run, not walk, back to the good old U.S. of A where many states still have an idea of what real punishment is.

Ken Quesnel, Kelowna