Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino to resign in light of revelations that his office was aware of Paul Bernardo’s transfer to a medium-security prison months ago.
“He’s lied about his knowledge and role in moving Paul Bernardo from a maximum security penitentiary to a medium security penitentiary,” Poilievre told reporters in Ottawa on June 14. “These are too many lies. It’s one lie too many. It is time for Marco Mendocino to resign.”
Despite Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino previously saying that the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) made a “shocking and incomprehensible” decision by transferring serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo into the medium-security prison, CSC now says that it informed Mendicino’s office of the transfer months before it became public….