Trudeau pushed justice off course

Re For ‘Bathtub Girls,’ murder not easy to wash

off, April 12 It should not come as a surprise to anyone that the two women who murdered their mother have been treated with kid gloves in Canada. This is the same justice system that gave murderer Karla Homolka a joke of a sentence, which she ended up serving in Quebec while obtaining a university degree at taxpayers’ expense. Upon release, Homolka was able to obtain a Canadian passport and now lives on a sun-drenched island in the Caribbean. This, after she participated in the murder of her sister and Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy.

We can thank former prime minister Pierre Trudeau for instructing his justice minister in the early ’70s to change from punishing convicted criminals to rehabilitating them. Alan Rock continued this idiotic philosophy.

With rare exceptions are murderers or other violent criminals justly punished in Canada. Their sentences are unfortunately light, the conditions in jail are not harsh enough, and when they are finished serving their light sentences and released back into society they can exact revenge against any living victim, family member or witness who testified against them. Unless you are carrying around a shotgun, who is to stop them from settling accounts with you?

The justice system has failed the honest, law-abiding citizens of Canada. It protects the criminals and is the proximate cause of these animals having no inhibitions in being violent to their fellow Canadians. George Skrettas, Ann Arbor, MI