OTTAWA -- Canada's prison service is spending millions of taxpayer dollars on everything from dentures to prosthetic limbs.
Documents obtained through Access to Information reveal how Corrections Service Canada manages its annual budget of $2.2 billion to care for its 14,500 inmates.
Hold it, let's do the math....2.2B divided by 14,500 inmates means that we are spending $151,724.14 per inmate per year!! That is outrageous, and it does not include trials, court appointed lawyers, judges, police, etc. Think about that for a minute, how many of you make that kind of money. You are expected to pay taxes on anything you earn and with whatever is left over, you need to support your family.
Yet the bleeding heart "hug-a-thug" lefties want more services provided for these inmates. Can you say, money making industry for social workers and activists? They are presently bleating for this little terrorist:
Omar Khadr is willing to face prosecution in Canada and to reside away from his controversial family if it means his release from Guantanamo Bay, his lawyers said Tuesday.
Mr. Khadr's lawyers will present Wednesday a “reintegration plan” designed to assuage the public's fears about the 22-year-old terrorism suspect's possibly imminent return to Canada.
How do Canadians feel about this? It appears that 80% of Canadians want nothing to do with Omar.
Here is a perfect solution, Hans Island. (That should be far enough away from his family.)
Add, this:
And we are set!
No guards needed, just a food drop once a week/month, let the inmates run the place. Bet it costs a lot less than $2.2B a year to run. I wonder if Khadr would agree to those terms?
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How about the far north? Find a hot spring, drop aspiring home builders with a plan for igloo's, and a dull knife to cut snow into blocks. Knife can be used on four legged predators. This knife will provide food and lodging. What more could you ask for?
Oh wait..... global warming will make this into a tropical getaway, maybe it's not the best idea.... back to the castle thingy with its moat and torture dungeons
Last time I checked Mr. Khadr had not been convicted of a crime. He has been held in at Guantanamo for 7 years. If they had any evidence he would have been on trial by now, like the rest of the prisoners. Oh, wait, they haven't been put on trial either....
SQ - so what? He is only a Canadian citizen because his family came here to take advantage of our liberties and for free medical care for one of the kids. His mother, in appreciation for all that Canada has given to her, publicly slagged our country and society while clutching a Canadian flag. I say toss the whole family back to Afghanistan and maybe then the mother would learn to keep her yap shut. I'd like to see her criticize her country back home. Actually, I'd like to see her open her mouth for any reason back home.
So, back to my original question - so what if he hasn't had a trial. The whole family is trouble and should never been allowed here.
There are many terrific immigrants who could contribute to our country but we have the Khadrs taking up all sorts of resources. What a pitiable joke.
Hey, SQ, why don't you take Omar into YOUR home - take the whole family while you're at it.
I love lefties - the ultimat NIMBY types - protest and wring your hands for the downtrodden and the criminal types but NEVER actually get your own hands dirty or actually do something concrete. But you sure can yell and gnash your teeth.
Don't waste your breath, E of E.
One question the lefties never address is just WHAT was Khadr doing overseas in the first place? They're quick to say he was but an impressionable young tot, caught up in his misguided father's 'freedom fighting' and should be returned to Canada so he can receive counselling and be reunited with his poor Mother who has been keeping the home fires burning as the menfolk away making the world a safer place.....uhh... wait a minute.....
The Khadr Klan are cheerleaders and bretheren of head hackers and low life terrorists and should either be shipped out of this country or jailed for treason.
As for the doe eyed, gentle little Omar, whether Obambi springs him from Gitmo or not, I take comfort in knowing he will face a firey eternity in the land where the guy with the pointy pitchfork conducts his business.
Khadr's domestic apologists are undoubtedly those that also subscribe to the cowardly moonbat line that the U.S. brought 9/11 all on themselves.
Eskimo - right you are; on all counts.
I worked with a lady from Uganda by way of Kenya. The stories she told me about Uganda made my hair stand on end. What domestic lefty types do not understand is that in these war-torn countries, children grow up very quickly and are fully capable of making decisions at a very early age. Make no mistake - Khadr was NOT an innocent child - he knew exactly what he was doing.
Eskimo - I'm sure you noticed that SQ never contributes anything meaningful - he just likes to toss crap at Hunter, no matter what she writes. Even if the argument is completely inane or irrelevant, he'll toss it in just to be annoying. Typical lefty type.
Wasn't Khadr BORN in Canada? I know, we're embarrassed that Scarberia is in fact in Canada, but unfortunately it is, and he was born there. We can certainly revoke citizenship for people who emigrated here, but I don't think we can revoke citizenship by birth.
Do you now support revoking citizenship by birth? Should it be possible to send me back to where my ancestors came from? Might be kind of hard, it would be the general area of Europe but which of several countries?
I thought the initial topic of this post, after joking about how nobody wants to go to the dentist, would segue a more serious fact that inmates can refuse urine samples for drug testing.
"...we are spending $151,724.14 per inmate per year!!"
Yes, and jailing them at this outrageous expense has done nothing to decrease our crime rate.
I'd say that is money well spent...
Gayle, my plan is so much cheaper, and safer for Canadians! We could reduce the money needed to about $5000 per prisoner and put a real dent in reducing crime.
Those little inmates might think before breaking the law. No TV, no heat, no phones, no visits from Momma, no society to prey on, instead they become the prey. Works for me! Let's move Olsen and Bernardo there first.
What the Laytons, Raes, Ignatieffs completely ignore is the fact that this Khadr kid was a resident of Afghanistan-Pakistan at the time of his choosing to join in a firefight with his taliban crew against a unit of American special forces.
He was captured after this firefight which left a special forces medic dead (at the hands of Khadr?) and one other trooper maimed for life.
In reality this Khadr kid should have been dead. He would have been if another special forces medic had not worked over him for hours at the site of the firefight after which this terrorist in training was carefully transported to Kabul for further medical attention.
The absolute insensibility of the Laytons, Raes, et al. is astounding especially when not one thought has been given by any one of these mincing loud mouths about our Canadian troopers bleeding and dying in that hellhole called Afghanistan. Our own Canadian troopers are ignored even when the body bags are coming home for all to see.
Do these arrogant, ignorant, self-appointed dictators of Canadian foreign policies even realize how completely stupid they really are and do they honestly believe that because the minority of socialist screamers despise our own Canadian troopers serving in Afghanistan ALL Canadians do?
No. the majority of Canadians in fact would gladly kick Khadrs sorry ass right back to where he came from. Afghanistan-Pakistan with the proviso ALL of his Khadr parasitic family be shipped back to where they came from.
Quite frankly I am ashamed of these blowhard, bleating, blethering socialists who claim to be Canadians while pissing on every value and principle not to mention human decency we Canadians were once long ago noted for.
Actually Hunter, even if you were being serious, your plan may not be cheaper, and it will certainly have no effect on the crime rate. Think about it - if capital punishment does not deter crime, what will?
If you are concerned about how much it costs to keep people in prison, then imagine how concerned you will be when those costs start going up and up and up as a result of the Harper "tough on crime" measures.
(And in case you were seriously suggesting we send criminals to an uninhabited island, or at a minimum we take away such expenses as dental care, allow me to point out that our Charter would never allow such treatment. If you are seriously looking for a solution to the high costs of keeping people in prison you should do so within the confines of real possibility).
"the majority of Canadians in fact would gladly kick Khadrs sorry ass right back to where he came from."
I believe he comes from Canada. Wasn't he born here?
Excellent comment Jay!!
Gayle, being born here does not a Canadian make, that is where the lefty arguments fall apart. He has spit on his birth certificate by fighting for the Taliban, and you lefties think that's okay.
Personally Gayle you mentioned that you wanted to take a seeing eye dog, but you couldn't because "you would not be able to give it up", that says it all about you doesn't it. Look closely at your image and see what is looking back at you. Thy name is hypocrite.
Actually, being born here DOES a Canadian make.
Look it up if you do not believe me.
PS - do you really understand what a hypocrite is? Why don't you look that one up too.
Gayle, the reason that we are not getting value for our money is because of people like you who make your living out of exploiting criminals. You claim that you can "help" but you cannot. Instead you and the whole "counselling" industry perpetuate your job security by simply going through the motions and pretending that your work is meaningful.
Sorry, but you and your ilk are simply bilking the rest of us while crime does not decrease. People are murdered, robbed, raped but hey, it ensures your job security.
I say ship them to that sheriff in the states who feeds his inmates on a couple of bucks per day and makes them work - and wear pink. Love that sheriff.
I vote to send Hunter back to Ukraine.
You do support stripping people of citizenship even if they were born here, right?
And I think you're a bad person. Since it seems we are having a poll on what to do about Khadr, we can have one on what to do about you.
So I vote to strip Hunter of her Canadian citizenship, even though she was born here. She has spit on her birth certificate by shilling for the CPC, and you far right extremists think that's okay.
Personally Gayle you mentioned that you wanted to take a seeing eye dog, but you couldn't because "you would not be able to give it up", that says it all about you doesn't it. Look closely at your image and see what is looking back at you. Thy name is hypocrite.
As Hunter descends ever further into ad hominen, just the thing she demands from commenters but gives herself a pass on, she only bolsters the case for her deportation.
Please be sure to write after you have arrived in the land of your ancestors.
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