For Canada’s “Best Prime Minister We Never Had”;
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day has favoured former police and corrections officers for new appointments to the National Parole Board since the Harper government took office in 2006, government records show.
Of the 36 new members Day has named to the board since he became minister that year, 23 are retired police officers or former federal and provincial corrections staff.
The John Howard Society is livid, which is always a good sign.
Love it!!!
Bring on the next election, please. There’s no way in h*ll the CPC can lose.
Bob Stanfield holds the title of best PM we never had. And his underwear is still the best.
Ex-cops are okay for parole boards, but no better than plenty of others. Cops don’t have an exclusive on justice issues, just like preachers don’t have a monopoly on morality. Day is looking for people that are more likely to fit his image. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn’t make him any kind of hero.
This insanity has to be stopped. If left unchecked soon they will be appointing farmers to the wheat board.
x-cop former cop I met them few are working in traffic ticket help people ticket
still are teh cop like to made people guilty to innocent or dismiss as I feel like that I may be wrong in majority of them
sorry cop
hire the retire judge is better for get opinion
or if you use experine cop today and train them with new mentality are better to use old cop or use the young cop but experince cop with more training are better and more crediable I think
It’s a sad day in Canada when Henry Morgentaler is awarded the Order of Canada for depleting our society of hundreds of thousands (the figures are actually in the millions now) of future Canadians–who, BTW, will never have a shot at getting such an award. ‘Talk about dying prematurely…
What a country.
The little white pin is pretty much meaningless now. The OC has become a travesty and makes a mockery of the “highest civilian honour” in our dystopian Deranged Dominion (thanks to Mark Steyn for that apt moniker).
Banana Republic is us.
Re Morgentaler
I wish I had the Order of Canada, so that I could send it back in protest!
Morgentaler didn’t do anything out of the goodness of his heart. He made millions off those clinics. I won’t comment one way or the other on the abortion issue, but the good doctor should get an award for his business success, not his humanitarian efforts.
It’s a meaningless gesture anyway. An award from a Haitian voodoo priestess, who supported the breakup of Canada.
Wallyj- I don’t want to pick a fight, but maybe farmers aren’t the best people to sit on the wheat board. Just like teachers shouldn’t control the schoolboard, or doctors control the health regions. It’s a conflict of interest. They’re too close to the issues.
“If I want to pay money to be lied to I’ll go to a strip club”
Have a safe trip to Alberta/Manitoba…
I’m with you Liz. Morgantaler deserves something, but it isn’t the Order of Canada. He’s a murderer.
Gym is a mental midget who will reap what he sows. Another anti-Christian with nothing of any use to add to a conversation except to attack the Bible.
Morgantaler deserves to swing on the end of a rope. Hes nothing but a MURDERER.
Uh Stockwell..PM?
No I can’t say I wanna get behind this one. He’d make Joe Clark look good.
Let’s try this again shall we?
Good God! Image what would happen if they appointed a VICTIM of crime onto that board! That would be terrible, because, of course, they have an IDEOLOGY that being victimized by criminals is a BAD thing! They are TOTALLY prejudiced!
BATB, Lookout and others who decry his award. This is not the thread for this but your hatred for this man is typical of religious seething for anyone who goes against what you are told to believe. I don’t remember Morgentaler rounding up pregnant women and forcing them to have abortions, never saw the cattle pens of millions of these women being herded into his clinic. It was their CHOICE, get over it.
If the Catholic church had its way there would be no sex education, contraceptives, morning after pills and you would be back where the muslims want you, in the house, under complete control, in a bag and silent.
He stopped the back street butchery of abortionists and women will continue to get them either in a clinic or on the street.
Try and get our party to support a motion to ban abortions and we will disappear faster than John Tory did in Ontario.
Good God! Image what would happen if they appointed a VICTIM of crime onto that board! That would be terrible, because, of course, they have an IDEOLOGY that being victimized by criminals is a BAD thing! They are TOTALLY prejudiced!
Posted by: grok at July 3, 2008 4:21 PM
Yes grok, that’s how justice works in this country. If the victim chooses the punishment for every crime there’d be no consistency.
Some victim might want to castrate his neighbour for running over his dog, and some idiot might want to forgive someone who murdered his kid.
The father of the kid that died in the Taber school shooting a few years ago showed no emotion, and insisted they have mercy on the shooter. He totally forgave the kid, and asked for lieniency. You want him on the parole board?
I don’t think there’s any one occupational group that should necessarily predominate in these appointments. It would be best if each panel reviewing an application had at least one cop/guard/Crown, one lawyer who has normally acted for the defence, and one social work/psych type who can decifer the diagnostic reports without being snowed by either side.
I do know that Stock Day is immensely popular with the guards. A leader of the guards union in BC told me how he gets personal EMails on his Blackberry direct from Stock late at night, … which means around 2 or 3 am Ottawa time. The former wet suit model (not successful in that gig) seems to have found his true calling.
I’m with you Liz. Morgantaler deserves something, but it isn’t the Order of Canada. He’s a murderer.
No he isn’t, and you know it. I am delighted he was appointed. And I take the reaction of you and Liz the same way the host takes the reaction of the JHS.
So,flyboy, waiting with bated breath for your explanation of who’ll pay for (badly needed) new prisons. Millionaire ad company execs from Quebec, perhaps? The Bronfmans? M. Strong? Maybe Paul Martin’s offshore registered shipping company can cut that cheque? I could never understand why the lieberals, always so anxious to spend my hard earned tax dollars on one incompetent boondoggle after another, couldn’t spit up a few bucks for some federal gaols. If we do build up some new prisons, I hope they’re modeled after the old BC pen,only grimmer. And way further north.