Western Standard - May 16, 2023


Poilievre： Repeal Trudeau’s woke catch-&-release law that caused the crime wave

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Justin Trudeau
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4 minutes

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797

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71

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The catch and release system was not brought into place by the Supreme Court, it was brought in by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It s a failure of the system to not support people who have committed crimes, gone to jail, served their sentence, and then they re committing another crime.

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00:00:00.000 The catch-and-release system was not brought in by the Supreme Court.
00:00:03.760 It was brought in by Justin Trudeau.
00:00:05.500 When you talk about bail, the alleged crime has already happened.
00:00:11.540 So how can you attribute bail to this increase in crime?
00:00:17.240 Should there not be more supportive measures to prevent the crime in the first place?
00:00:25.040 If you're talking about someone who's been on bail, they've already allegedly committed the crime.
00:00:29.200 So where, you know...
00:00:31.340 They're committing crimes on bail.
00:00:34.300 That's the problem.
00:00:35.980 The problem is, I'll give you an example.
00:00:37.940 In Vancouver, the same 40 offenders were arrested 6,000 times in a year.
00:00:47.580 That's 150 arrests per offender per year.
00:00:51.480 Why?
00:00:52.240 Because they're arrested in the morning, then they're released on bail by noon,
00:00:56.420 they re-offend, they're back in jail by 2 in the afternoon,
00:01:00.540 and then they're released by the evening so that they can commit their final crime before they go to bed.
00:01:04.480 Is this a failure of the system to not support people who have committed crimes,
00:01:09.080 gone to jail, served their sentence, you know,
00:01:14.040 and then they're committing another crime?
00:01:15.640 So is this not a failure of things like social services and support for people who have committed crimes?
00:01:20.680 Are you serious?
00:01:21.780 No, I mean, are you serious?
00:01:25.180 Come on.
00:01:25.800 You're telling me...
00:01:26.600 No, excuse me.
00:01:27.300 Let me answer your question.
00:01:28.760 Are you honestly saying that it's society's fault
00:01:33.060 if a repeat violent offender commits 60 or 70 offences?
00:01:38.920 I think that criminal is to blame for his own actions.
00:01:42.920 He is personally responsible.
00:01:45.040 We're not talking about some kid who made one mistake when he was 19.
00:01:48.120 We're talking about people who do 60, 70 violent offences.
00:01:53.100 Why do those people do those offences?
00:01:53.640 And then they're...
00:01:54.940 Because they're criminals.
00:01:56.200 So why are they criminals? 0.50
00:01:57.700 Because they do crime.
00:01:59.100 And why do they do crime?
00:02:00.040 Because we let them out early on bail.
00:02:02.580 So because they got let out...
00:02:03.900 I think we've solved the riddle here.
00:02:05.140 Because they got let out early on bail...
00:02:07.100 That's right.
00:02:07.620 They then commit the crime.
00:02:08.640 That's right.
00:02:09.060 So...
00:02:09.580 That's what all the experts agree is the cause of the crime.
00:02:14.020 So if they stayed in jail the whole time, on bail, in jail, not on bail, as you say,
00:02:20.000 they would then not commit crimes?
00:02:21.920 Because they'd be in jail.
00:02:23.180 So they couldn't commit crimes.
00:02:23.880 And when they get out at the end of their sentence, they're crime-free?
00:02:26.940 Well, we can't guarantee that.
00:02:29.340 But what we can guarantee is the period when they're behind bars,
00:02:31.880 they will not be able to do crime.
00:02:33.700 You seriously don't think that there's got to be some help with homelessness,
00:02:37.640 mental health, things like that?
00:02:38.940 There's got to be some other thing than just locking people up.
00:02:41.000 Now, first of all, what I'm proposing would ultimately lead to less people being locked up.
00:02:46.840 During the previous Conservative government, the incarceration levels went down
00:02:51.940 because we targeted the repeat violent offenders with stiffer jail penalties.
00:02:57.420 Now, and we gave rehabilitation to a young person who made a mistake
00:03:03.160 to get them fixed up and back out into a good life.
00:03:06.280 That makes sense.
00:03:07.020 But we're talking here...
00:03:08.160 Do you know, here's the good news.
00:03:09.420 We have very few criminals in Canada.
00:03:11.540 It's a tiny minority.
00:03:13.380 Like I said, in Vancouver, if you took those 40 offenders off the street,
00:03:17.380 you'd have 6,000 fewer people hit over the head with a baseball bat or stabbed at a transit station.
00:03:22.320 It's just 40 people. 0.54
00:03:25.080 So take the worst, most chronic re-offenders, put them behind bars.
00:03:29.900 Is there homelessness?
00:03:31.240 Yes.
00:03:32.080 Trudeau has caused housing costs to double.
00:03:34.720 Naturally, because of the misery that his woke economic policies have caused people,
00:03:40.640 particularly the poorest people, there's more homelessness,
00:03:44.280 there's more mental health breakdown, there's more misery than ever before.
00:03:47.540 People are asking for help with medical assistance and dying
00:03:49.860 because they can't afford the cost of food.
00:03:52.760 That is what you're going to get when you increase the cost of government
00:03:56.420 and you drive up inflation, taxes, and interest rates.
00:03:59.780 It's also what you're going to get when you legalize crack, heroin, and cocaine,
00:04:03.940 as Trudeau and the NDP have done in B.C.,
00:04:06.400 and it's exactly what you're going to get when you use tax dollars
00:04:09.440 to give out free, hard drugs to addicts.
00:04:12.340 All of this has caused the phenomenon of everything being broken
00:04:16.960 after eight years of Justin Trudeau.
00:04:18.880 My common sense plan will bring down inflation and housing prices
00:04:22.840 by capping the cost of government,
00:04:25.020 removing the gatekeepers to build homes people can afford,
00:04:28.440 and by putting the most serious violent offenders in jail.
00:04:31.960 And we're going to ban hard drugs and stop giving out tax-free narcotics,
00:04:36.040 instead give people treatment.