Well with an election all but assured for the spring hopefully these waiting crime bills including Bill C23B as well as the atrocious fee increase for pardons will die a quick death. Let’s just hope. In the meantime there was an interesting vote in parliament yesterday. Vote #195 on March 8th, 2011Vote topic That, inRead More

La Commission des libérations conditionnelles invite actuellement le public à  donner son opinion sur l’augmentation envisagée des frais de service exigés des demandeurs de pardon. Cette augmentation des frais, de toute évidence une tentative de réduire les demandes de pardon et décourager les demandeurs éventuels,  est d’autant plus honteux que les individus les plus touchésRead More

There is an article in the Montreal Gazette today about a father being deported because he failed to take care of an old criminal record. Since a pardon application would eliminate the criminal record it is clear that the criminal record is not the reason he is being sent home. Rather, it is his reluctanceRead More

After reading the article in the Globe and Mail that I posted here yesterday I decided to send a letter to the editor explaining why I have a problem with the attitude the private sector constantly receives from the National Parole Board. And voila, the paper published it. If you would like to read theRead More

After a few years of very fast processing times for pardons applications (fast being a relative term of course) we have had to change our time frames. Pardons were being processed as quickly as 2 months for some expedited applications and 8 months for standard applications. However, due to the recent legislative debates over pardonsRead More

I found a great article on ctv.ca cencerning the Standing Committee meeting that met a couple of days before the meeting that I participated in. Please read the original article on ctv.ca by clicking the link below. Otherwise it’s included below: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Politics/20101122/criminal-pardons-parliament-101122/ OTTAWA — Conservative MPs heaped praise Monday on three ex-convicts who’ve cleaned up theirRead More