Niagara Conservative MPs and survivors press for justice reforms as House defeats maximum-security bill
Niagara Conservative MPs and victims’ advocates are vowing to continue pushing for changes to Canada’s justice and correctional systems following the defeat of legislation that would have required some of the country’s most dangerous offenders to remain in maximum-security prisons.
Members of Parliament voted down (190-133 vote) Bill C-232, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (Maximum Security Offenders), on June 10 following the conclusion of second-reading debate in the House of Commons.
The private member’s bill was introduced by Niagara Falls—Niagara-on-the-Lake Conservative MP Tony Baldinelli. It would have required inmates designated as dangerous offenders or convicted of more than one first-degree murder to be classified as maximum security and confined in a maximum-security penitentiary or a maximum-security area within a penitentiary.
