A bunch of Texan lawmen advised the Stephen Harpers not to push thru their poorly thought out and pandering crime bill.
Point the Texans made was that they tried and it doesn't work. Sure, if you build prisons you will fill them but that is just because Johnny Law goes on an arrest frenzy and minimum sentencing does the rest.
Will Stephen Harper listen? Yes and no. He will hear the words but he won't heed them.
Here is why. His base, good God fearing middle class Canucks, most of whom wouldn't break a law, really, really, really wouldn't break a law if they got more time. Criminals don't think that way. Criminals do crime, it is more than a job it is a passion and sentencing laws don't affect the fact that they are going to do crimes as much as our PM would love you to believe. Sure six months in jail for having a pot plant in the window of your rented condo will stop you but surely only a fool would believe that it will stop a guy in Wakefield, Kelowna or the Kawarthas who has a 10,000 plant operation over three locations from doing business.
If Mr. Harper really cared about crime he would pour his resources into the places that need help, poverty and crime centres like Regina and Winnipeg and Main and Hastings. He won't but he should.
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