The toughest punishment in Canada’s criminal justice system could be shut down by the Supreme Court on Friday, leaving Alexandre Bissonnette, who killed six Muslim worshippers at a Quebec City mosque, and Alek Minassian, who killed 10 pedestrians in Toronto, eligible for a parole hearing after 25 years.
The court heard a constitutional challenge to whole-life sentences in the Bissonnette case just two months ago; on average, rulings arrive 6.7 months after hearings. The prompt scheduling suggests the nine judges did not find such sentences to pose a difficult legal question. The sentencing of Mr. Minassian in a lower court has been delayed pending this week’s Supreme Court decision on whether life without parole violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
In Mr. Bissonnette’s case, the Quebec attorney-general initially asked for 150 years. Mr. Minassian would be ineligible for up to 250 years for his 2018 rampage in a van. Judges have stacked parole periods in at least 18 cases of mass killings since then, with the longest period being 75 years. The Bissonnette case was the first one in which an appeal court ruled the law unconstitutional. Quebec prosecutors appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court.
Four provinces asked the court to uphold the law. So did the federal justice department, under the Liberal government. All argued that the law should be upheld because it allows judges the discretion to use it in the appropriate cases.
Canada needs to model its sentencing laws after the US as more people need to be incarcerated for life without parole. There should be no such thing as day parole or furloughs & more young offenders need to be tried as adults.
We are researching how 9/11 & now virus 2020 were funded. The two dumbest ideas in human history.
100% if you kill multiple people this should stack on you. Take a life pay a life
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