Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre says the Liberal government’s newly introduced legislation aimed at reforming Canada’s federal bail policies will not solve the current issue of violent, repeat offenders being released back into society before serving their entire prison sentence.
Speaking to reporters in Ottawa on May 16, Poilievre said the Liberal government’s tabled Bill C-48 does not “raise the bar” of requirements to be met before criminals can be released on bail, but only introduces “a bunch of lower bars  underneath the bar that is already there.”
“They have not reversed catch and release,” Poilievre said, later adding that the proposed legislation “does not guarantee that a repeat violent offender who is newly charged with a violent crime would stay in jail until the sentence is completed.”…