Pubdate: Tue, 15 Nov 2011
Source: Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC)
Copyright: 2011 Dylan Rovere
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Author: Dylan Rovere

CLARK'S CRIME-BILL SUPPORT A MISTAKE

Premier Christy Clark's pledge to support Stephen Harper's omnibus 
crime bill and, by extension, its huge financial and social costs to 
our province, has left me in a quandary. As a political centrist, I 
should be a natural supporter of the B.C. Liberal party. However, I 
cannot and will not endorse any public policy that is so antithetical 
to reason, logic, and years of observation and research. Increasing 
incarceration rates have had a disastrous effect on our neighbours to 
the south.

The numbers are in. The war on drugs in particular has been an 
unqualified failure of epic proportions. Let's not make the same 
mistake in Canada.

Clark should reconsider her position.

Dylan Rovere

Victoria
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