AGAR: Judges and government going soft on criminals and safety
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Canada is soft on violent crime.
That is not to say that the average Canadian wrings their hands over the plight of the criminal. But the courts do.
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Yet again in Toronto, a violent repeat offender allegedly put a gun to the face of an innocent person, demanding the car.
As Joe Warmington reported in the Toronto Sun, Toronto’s Javed Husnain, 21, since 2023, “has been charged with numerous serious criminal offences and keeps being released with court conditions. And then arrested again. Then released again.”
Those included charges related to forced home invasions and carjackings with weapons.
Leger has reported that “91% of Canadians agree that repeat violent criminal offenders should have their access to bail severely restricted or revoked.
“A significant proportion of Canadians (73%) agree with restricting bail, even if it could lead to challenges on the interpretation of our Charter of Rights.”
How is it that getting tough on alleged and convicted criminals – the leeches and predators – makes total sense to most of us, but not to judges, parole officers and politicians?
Police claim Husnain was injured when he jumped from the raised Gardiner Expressway to elude officers.
How is it that, as Warmington pointed out, we automatically investigate the actions of police when a person is injured, yet there is no investigation into the judges who regularly set violent repeat offenders free to perpetrate violence again?
When will we have accountability in the court system? Do we need to elect judges?
What are the chances a judge who is outed to be a serial releaser of serial offenders would be re-elected?
Those who argue against it say the judges need to be above politics and accountable only to the law, not the mob.
Well, the mob is under attack and judges sit in their well-appointed chambers, free of any accountability for the mayhem they release.
Peace Arch News reports, “Public Safety Minister Garry Begg — in Surrey for an announcement about a special investigations program targeting repeat violent offenders — had nothing to say to the family of a Surrey woman who was murdered in her home last June by a repeat violent offender.
“Tori Dunn, 30, was found with life-threatening injuries in her home in Begg’s riding in Port Kells on June 16, 2024. She later died in hospital.”
CTV News tells us, “Tracy Sprung says her son should be alive, because the man who killed him should have still been behind bars on the day her son was killed.
“‘Because within days of his release, unfortunately, he killed my son,'” said Sprung.
“Matthew McQuarrie was sentenced to life in prison for stabbing to death Emerson Sprung and burying him in a shallow grave in a Meaford, Ont., park.
McQuarrie had an extensive criminal history dating back to 2001.”
Those are not isolated incidents.
In 2022, there were 256 people charged with murder while on some kind of release, including house arrest and parole. With 874 homicides in 2022, the 256 people charged while on release would equate to 29% of all homicides.
An April press release from Mark Carney’s Liberals promised to get tough on crime.
It is heavy on gun control, a gun buyback program that is failing and revocation of gun licences from convicted offenders, which is already law.
There is no mention of bail reform.
Soft again on violent crime.
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