Well Stephane Dion and the Liberal Party are attempting to rebuff the public image that they're soft on crime by releasing their plan for getting tough on crime by "Protecting Our Homes and Our Rights". If you actually look at their plan, you'll soon realize that the Liberanos are out to lunch on this issue.
First of all the Liberals have once again gone and stolen some of the Conservative Party's positions on crime, such as hiring more prosecutors and police officers. Then they want to create a 400-officer team within the RCMP to fight organized crime, drugs, and gun crime. Oh right, apparently they don't feel that the units within the RCMP that currently deal with these areas aren't doing a good enough job. So rather than increasing funding, man-power, and improve information-sharing between these units the Liberals would rather create a super-unit which would only serve to increase the amount of bureaucracy within the RCMP.
The Liberals also have some plans for the Internet. First off, Dion wants to make it a crime for anyone to send spam emails. Frankly, while it is a noble thing in theory, how on earth do the Liberals think that this is implementable?! While spam emails are annoying, many of them are sent by people who live out of the county, and use complicated means of avoiding detection. I know that there are issues regarding fraud and identity theft and spam, but the government should inform Canadians about these issues. Besides, there are some areas about the Internet that are illegal which the police should be given more resources towards fighting . Such as child predators on the Internet. Which the Liberal Party has decided to adopt a get-tough approach to, even though they still don't want to see the raise of consent from the low age of 14 up to the age of 16. Puzzling.
One particularly telling feature of the Liberals' new "get tough on crime plan" is that while they are spouting about how now they're in support of tough crime measures, they still espouse how they want an emphasis place on rehabilitation. They also have thrown their support behind a few of the Conservatives crime proposals, while opposing others.
And of course we still have Stephane Dion criticizing the Conservative Government of Stephen Harper with regards to the judge selection process under the new government. That being, the allegations being levelled at Harper that the Conservatives are attempting to stack the selection committees and the benches with people that are biased in favor of conservative ideas on crime. This is simply not the case. The Conservatives are not cleaning out those already involved in the judge appointment process in favor of their own people, like the Opposition parties are alleging. The Conservatives are simply replacing those that are leaving their positions with those who are best qualified for those jobs. It doesn't matter if they are liberal, conservative, or any other political strip; just as long as they are best qualified. The Opposition parties are intent on deceiving the Canadian public by distorting the truth in order to gain political points. Besides, it's hypocritical of the Liberals to whine and complain about the supposed biased judge selection process seeing as we all know that the process was far from unbiased under the former Liberal governments of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin. In that the best qualified people were often skipped over for those of a certain political or ideological persuasion.
So is the Liberal Party of Canada getting tough on crime? No. They're getting clueless on crime.
