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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says repeat car thieves should not be allowed to serve their sentence 'in their living room watching Netflix.'

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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sounds like he wants ro bring the fucked ideas of minimum sentences and three strike laws up from the states.

Minimum sentences are a quagmire.

Three strike laws are a violation of human rights.

[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Private prisons make shit-tonnes of profits for his new backers.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I remember Harper trying to bring for profit prisons into Canada. Thankfully it got shutdown.

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

Thankfully Harper got the boot.

What a shit stain he was (and still is).

[–] pbjamm@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago

Idiots love simple answers to complex problems.