How Canadian politicians fight crime
The proposal of the opposition leader looks too radical.
In just two years Canada will be re-electing Prime Minister. Trudeau's biggest opponent is conservative Pierre Poilievre. Even though the election is still a long way off, he is vigorously resisting the current government and proposing solutions to issues ranging from health care to crime control, from international relations to education system.
The leader of the Conservative Party said this week that if he was a prime minister, his government would bring in legislation denying repeat violent offenders.
Seems that his statement is related to the crime problem in today's Canada. Poilievre regularly says crime has gotten worse during Trudeau's time as prime minister.
"If someone has committed seven or eight repeat violent offences and then is newly arrested on a new violent charge, then it's clear that they are a danger to society and should be kept behind bars until the trial is over and their sentences complete," Poilievre told reporters in Ottawa this Tuesday.
Experts have already dubbed this proposal radical, because it is likely to be unconstitutional.
The opposition leader's comments came in response to the federal government announcing its own plans to reform Canada's bail legislation. They plan to introduce measures that would make it harder for some repeat violent offenders to be released on bail.
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