Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino should resign over convicted killer Paul Bernardo's controversial prison transfer.
CBC News reported Tuesday that Mendicino's office knew for months that one of Canada's most high-profile murderers would be moved by Correctional Service Canada to a medium-security institution.But the minister's political staff maintain they didn't relay that information to Mendicino until the day after Bernardo was transferred.
CSC said it first told Mendicino's office in March that there was a transfer planned with an unspecified date. "This is not the first time Mr. Mendicino has lied to Canadians. I have a list," he went on, reading off a series of the minister's perceived failings, including his handling of the 2022 trucker convoy and the so-called Chinese government police stations in Canada.
Moving Bernardo from a maximum-security prison like Bath, Ont.'s Millhaven Institution to a medium-security institution means the prisoner will have fewer restrictions on his movement and he'll be allowed to interact with other inmates. The inmate must also require "a low degree of supervision and control within the institution," CSC has said.Bernardo was convicted of first-degree murder in 1995 for the killings of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French.
But that also suggests that Bernardo's victims knew of the swap before Mendicino, who is ostensibly in the charge of the CSC.
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