Conservative MPs heaped praise Monday on three ex-convicts who've cleaned up their lives, without seeming to grasp they're exactly the types of serious, repeat offenders targeted by the government's latest tough-on-crime legislation.It gets even better…
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"We need to clearly focus on the type of people -- and they are the repeat offenders, they're the most heinous people -- that we're trying to focus this legislation on," Conservative MP Phil McColeman told the committee.
That prompted witness John Hutton, the executive director of the John Howard Society of Manitoba, to interject.
"I'm sorry, these are the people you're talking about!" said Hutton, extending his arms to encompass the other witnesses at the table.
As reported by Maclean's magazine, after the meeting Phil called Liberal MP Mark Holland soft on crime. Holland said that this was untrue. So Phil stood up in Parliament and said:
"Mr. Speaker, since being elected to the House some two years ago and a bit, I will take no lessons from the member for Ajax—Pickering when it comes to presenting issues to Parliament that are not based on any factual evidence. I will take no lessons from that member."That's right – Phil is an expert at presenting issues that are NOT based on factual evidence!
That is what he does every time he blathers on about "tough on crime", after all.
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I'm embarrassed to say I went to highschool with Phil back in the day.
I was surprised when someone told me that he ended up pursuing politics. The guy is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. He's well meaning enough, but even back then it was apparent that he wouldn't be splitting any atoms.
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