Canada shouldn’t follow U.S. on crime bills

Re: "Justice Minister Nicholson pushes crime bill he used to be against," (The Hill Times, Feb. 1, p. 1). Mandatory minimum sentences dating back to the 1970s in the United States have been the single largest contributing factor in the unbelievable and mind-boggling growth in the size of t...

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