What that was courts often applied time waiting for trial on a two for one basis to the sentence of a newly convicted prisoner. The reasoning is that, for starters, holding jails tend to be just that: no programs, no rehab, no rec, just warehousing. Also the fact is that by offering two for one the prosecutors are encouraged to speed up the process, giving the accused his day in court at the earliest possible time.
Now the police can arrest you and you can be warehoused indefinitely with no penalty as it were to the state.
Oh, yeah, by the way, as Minister Nicholson writes in this morning's National Post, the Act received unanimous approval in the House of Commons.
Everybody was onside.
The only thing holding it back was the hard work of the liberal Liberal Senators in the Red Chamber.
Prime Minister Harper stacked his way out of that one.
Beauty, eh?
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