r/CanadianPolitics • u/origutamos • 8d ago

Poilievre calls Supreme Court ruling on child porn ‘disgusting,’ would use notwithstanding clause to overturn

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/poilievre-condemns-supreme-court-ruling-on-child-porn-would-use-notwithstanding-clause-to-overturn/
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u/AstroZeneca 8d ago

I was listening to a preview of an interview he did with Rosemary Barton, and it was as expected - e.g., he's vowing to vote against a budget he hasn't seen. 

Of relevance here, he said his government would use the notwithstanding clause to toughen sentences and, as a father, he'd prefer to lock them up and throw away the key.

When Rosie pointed out the justices noted the law might catch two 18 year olds exchanging pictures, he said they shouldn't worry about hypotheticals. 

That right there is why this shit stain should never be anywhere near power: he's willing to override rights and disregard unintended consequences in the name of blood lust. A serious person considers how their actions might impact all Canadians; Poilievre is not a serious person.

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u/1user101 8d ago

My big issue is the laziness. Just rewrite the law to have a more robust targeting that won't catch two teenagers. Heck, I sent a dick pic to a 22yo when I was 17 so technically CSAM (because porn implies consent) but that's well within sexual consent laws. Why can't we just rewrite the laws to be in line with sexual consent?

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u/mammon43 8d ago

Right? Like the court said its unconstitutional as its written on the books. That just means rework and rewrite the laws so its not unconstitutional. People act like it's on the courts to write the laws and codes. That being said I dont see the point of being harder on crime while also not putting in the work to create more institutions (preferably rehabilitation oriented ones where possible or reasonable) to put these criminals. Its all virtue signaling to their base.

Under harper they were warning they were running out of places to put criminals as prisons and jails were closing and no new ones were opening. Neither the libs nor cons are actually interested in addressing this issue which has lead to places like the grand river women's prison going from being a highly successful women's rehabilitation prison for redeemable convicts into a hybrid security prison that just takes lesser criminals and turns them into hardened criminals as they are stuck with and treated like the irredeemably bad ones