Two Tiered Law in Canada

One law for the rich and another law for the poor in Canada. Yesterday, as I was passing a newspaper box with a headline saying something about a 1.5 million dollar fraud and John Coffin with suspended sentence, I heard a member "of the great unwashed" comment on the leniency of the sentence.

Well, I take it that that is the word on the street. If you are Marc Emery or some other individual who dares to do something wrong and if you are below a certain income level, you are asking for trouble. There won't be as much leniency. I heard somehwere along my years that is is important how it looks rather than how it actually is in practice. I have to say it looks pretty doubius when white collar crime nets wealth and little penalty other than a slap on the wrist.

Oh well, dear Alphonse, who said life was fair....next time we feel smug about Canada maybe a reality check on how we deal with crime and punishment in this country.

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