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

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

There is an article on CTV news about the Conservatives being open to amending the 3 strikes rule in bill C-23B. I argued against that measure at the Standing Committee meeting but then again so did most of the witnesses. I have said it before but it’s worth saying again. No one supported the billRead More