Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe told reporters on Wednesday that the Bloc has been blocking Conservative bills to imprison young offenders and end house arrest for sentences over 10 years, bills Prime Minister Stephen Harper says a new Conservative government would re-introduce.
Duceppe, who calls prisons “the university of crime,” said young offenders would be “fresh meat,” prey to sexual predators
You have got to be kidding me, Gilles.
"Fresh meat" for offenders?
Is that something the leader of a party should be suggesting?
That's just gross.
Here's an idea: if young offenders are threatened by sexual predators, keep the predators away.
That's no excuse not to send them to jail.
I'm sure that comment makes the family of murder victims feel a lot better. It's like saying we can't really punish the man who killed your loved one, we're afraid he'll get raped.
And you know, I think that makes Gilles Duceppe open to the accusation that he cares more about criminals than the victims and their families.
FTQ president Michel Arsenault said Mr. Harper’s focus on the police, the army, prisons” does not correspond to Quebec values.
That may have been true once upon a time, but I think this is less and less true. If anything, I think endorsement by a union is a vote killer. More and more, people in Quebec are getting sick of the unions.
