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FELDSTED: Censorship is far worse than hypocrisy, it is a direct attack on our fundamental, charter protected freedoms


Trudeau accuses Tories of ‘playing politics’ over Tori Stafford murder
By Alex Boutilier  ~~  Ottawa Bureau  ~~  Wed., Sept. 26, 2018

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the Conservatives of using the 2009 murder of Tori Stafford to “play politics” Wednesday, as opposition MPs repeatedly attacked a government decision to move one of the girl’s killers to a healing lodge.

In a tense debate in the House of Commons, the Conservatives grilled the government over a decision by Correctional Services Canada to move Terri-Lynne McClintic from a prison to the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge last December …

… in what NDP MP Sheila Malcolmson described as “sickening” exploitation, several Conservative MPs read graphic details of the case into the record. After multiple rounds of questioning, Conservative justice critic Tony Clement described in detail how McClintic took part’s in Tori’s kidnapping, sexual assault and murder.

…  Nicholson dismissed the Liberals’ criticism that opposition members were using a child’s murder to score political points.

“I think my colleagues who asked those questions are on the side of the family here,” Nicholson said outside the House of Commons.

Full Story at: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/09/26/trudeau-accuses-tories-of-playing-politics-over-tori-stafford-murder.html


This is typical government reaction to valid criticism - shut down the dialogue -- change the narrative.


Terri-Lynne McClintic another camera caught her
her perusing the aisles and buying the hammer,
the murder weapon
The problem is not spelling out the horrors of the crime; the problem is that a criminal convicted of a heinous crime is receiving leniency in administration of her sentence.


Ms. McClintic remains in the witness stand, a curiously matronly figure for a 21-year-old who has claimed to have smashed the child in the head with a hammer … once inside, of course, another camera caught her perusing the aisles and buying the hammer, the murder weapon …
NATIONAL POST – March 14th, 2012

Trudeau and company cannot withstand the criticisms they freely heap on everyone else.

Censorship is far worse than hypocrisy. It is a direct attack on our fundamental, charter protected freedoms.

Government cannot dictate what issues may be debated or how those issues will be addressed. That is censorship.

 
John. Feldsted
Political Consultant & Strategist
Winnipeg, Manitoba




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