The federal Conservatives say Canadians angry over Paul Bernardo’s move to a medium-security prison have a Liberal government law to blame.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre points to a bill passed in 2019 that sought to end solitary confinement, which also amended the law governing Canada’s prisons to stipulate inmates should be held in the “least restrictive environment.”
The Liberal legislation reversed a change Conservatives had made seven years earlier, restoring language that had been there from the beginning.
The debate over that phrasing was not new then, either.
Just ask Mary Campbell, one of the minds behind the law that governs Canada’s prisons system.
