Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said Thursday the Correctional Service Canada’s decision to transfer convicted murderer Paul Bernardo to a prison with fewer restrictions “does not sit well” with Canadians — but he stopped short of saying he would attempt to force the agency to reverse course in the face of public outrage.
Pressed by reporters to say if he’d intervene and somehow move Bernardo back to a maximum-security prison, Mendicino said he spoke to the CSC commissioner and expressed his “concerns on behalf of Canadians.”
He said he told the commissioner, Anne Kelly, that the decision would inevitably “spark the backlash that
