Colby Cosh

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BQ amuse-bouche

by Colby Cosh on Friday, January 28, 2011 12:52am - 7 Comments

If you can read French or figure out Google Translate, you may enjoy the counterintuitive spectacle of the Bloc Québécois criticizing the Conservatives because their sissified lassitude on criminal sentencing guidelines has allowed a highly destructive criminal to go free.

Tags: Bloc Québécois, C-434, criminal justice, law and order, Norbourg, sentencing, Vincent Lacroix

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James Fulford

This is a Google Translate link.
madeyoulook

C'mon, Colby, it's not like some minor thing like rape or murder or armed robbery, where truth in sentencing is just a pander to the heartless neocon thugs — this guy swindled money! More prisons for nonviolent offenders! Toot sweet! Oh, along with five billion for Quebec. Merci bcp.
madeyoulook

If you can read French or figure out Google Translate…

Do you mean to tell me there is a federal party that does not release its announcements in both official languages? Quelle honte!

madeyoulook

I take it back. There is an English section to the BQ website. Compare and contrast:
http://www.blocquebecois.org/English.aspx

alfanerd

This is pretty freaking hilarious. The BQ is upset that their private member's bill was ignored.

At least its comforting to know that there are some criminals that the BQ doesnt want to embrace and rehabilitate.
FVerhoeven

Does anybody understand Canadian politics any longer??

I sure as hell don't.

Btw: why does Maclean have mostly male writers (something like 99%). Strange.
http://www.maple-leaf-forever.com Lord Bob

Does Maclean's have 100 writers of whom 1 is female, or is somebody on the masthead a fraction of a female? Where's the Walrus when we need it?