“While we know that the justice system doesn’t exactly work like this, the crude calculation for many is that this translates to about 6.5 years per life,” he said. Under a 2011 amendment to the Criminal Code of Canada, both Bissonnette and McArthur could have received periods of parole ineligibility longer than 100 years apiece. And another example of how little the justice system values the lives of us all. Canada has a loose set of sentencing principles, but it’s ultimately up to individual discretion on how those get applied. Most recently a 2012 poll found that 63 per cent of Canadians favoured executing criminals such as Bissonnette or McArthur.

Source: National Post February 12, 2019 13:28 UTC