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Ottawa needs to 'walk the walk'
Canada - York Region, ON - July 7, 2005
http://www.yorkregion.com/yr/newscen...-3357827c.html
The news Wayne Relf is serving 83 days in prison for sexual interference has many questioning Canada's child sex abuse laws. The Liberals introduced legislation this past October designed to protect children and other vulnerable persons from sexual exploitation, violence, abuse and neglect. Bill-C2 proposes several major reforms, including: Broadening the definition of child pornography; Creating a new prohibition against advertising child porn; Increasing maximum penalties for child porn and other child-related sex offences and; Narrowing existing defences. Without mandatory minimum sentences and the elimination of conditional sentences, early release and two-for-one volume discounts for sex offenders, the Liberals' latest bill falls short, he said. "What we need is stronger minimum sentences, not maximums, since the judges are ignoring the maximums anyway," Ms Smith said, agreeing Bill-C2 may not go far enough. Clause by clause consideration is scheduled for this week and third reading begins next week.
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You are telling me , Canada's child sex abuse laws are a joke.  |
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