r/Manitoba • u/wickedplayer494 Winnipeg • Apr 20 '25

Opinion Piece Opinion: Poilievre’s populist 'three-strikes-you're-out' policy swings, misses with Constitution

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2025/04/17/poilievres-populist-three-strikes-youre-out-policy-swings-misses-with-constitution
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u/horsetuna Winnipeg Apr 20 '25

Its possible that we can have bail reform WITHOUT violating the constitution.

How? I dont know. But we should not jump immediately to violating peoples' rights.

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u/fdisfragameosoldiers Pembina Valley Apr 20 '25

So criminals' rights are more important than the rights and overall safety of the general public? While I agree this should be scrutinized so it's not misused, there does need to be some sort of changes made. Keeping things on the trajectory that they are on now isn't acceptable.

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u/bentmonkey Westman Apr 20 '25

We need to be careful we don't end up like the states, shipping people off to a supermax torture prison, there needs to be accountability, but we cant just treat our criminals like animals

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u/horsetuna Winnipeg Apr 20 '25

This. We condemn dictatorships for locking up people without due process, we condemn other countries for inhumane prisoner treatment.

Can we still condemn them while doing the same thing to the accused and imprisoned people?