Nicole And I were Invited to participate in the following public forum on the pardons legislation. We will me speaking members of the panel along with representatives from the St. Leonard’s Society of Ottawa, the John Howard Society of Ottawa, and representatives from the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies. Below is the press release for this […]
It has now been more than ten years since the National Pardon Centre opened its doors. Back then pardons were kind of a new thing, especially in Montreal where our first office is located. I guess that’s why Canada Now did a news story on our opening. Ten years later I can’t help but look […]
This post refers specifically to the company operating under the name Federal Pardon Waiver Services but is also a commentary on the general problems associated with this industry. If you want an honest team give me a call. At the National Pardon Centre your file is in good (and honest) hands. Unfortunately I’m forced to discuss the […]
If getting a Canadian pardon has been a concern to you in the past couple of years and you don’t know the significance of 5 and 10 years then you must have been living in a cave, maybe on the moon or on Mars or somewhere in the Kuiper belt. It would have been hard […]
Pardons Backlog – If application for a pardon is stuck in the backlog at the Parole Board of Canada the chances are that there is not much information I can give you that you don’t already know. I am happy to discuss things with our clients and even with some of you who are not our […]
Obviously there has been a lot of negativity in the pardon and waivers industry lately that we don’t need to go over again. So with this post I thought I would lighten it up a bit, just for a change. I always loved the Far Side so when I stumbled across these and they were […]
PARDONS COST INCREASE Sadly the big news in pardons is that the cost of getting one has skyrocketed. Following legislative changes championed by the Conservative government the fee for filing your application with the Parole Board of Canada went from $50 to $631. And of course most service providers, having wasted so many resources fighting […]
The Toronto Star has been very supportive of the fight against the Tories tough on crime agenda. This is the fourth opinion piece of mine it has published and I would like to say how much we appreciate the support here at the National Pardon Centre. There is certainly room for improvement in Canada’s justice […]
With the Parole Board backed up and the unregulated industry that is pardon and waiver services growing saturated I have inevitably been fielding a lot of calls from people whose Canadian pardon application is in limbo (which, incidentally, is now called a record suspension). Sometimes it is the fault of the pardon company but sometimes it […]
Vulnerable Sector Checks -RCMP We recently completed the testing and administration portion of the vulnerable screening services and as a result we are now able to do fingerprinting for this purpose. There is a slight difference from processing regular fingerprint submissions in that the results need to be returned to a police station. It’s not […]
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