Prime Minister Harper’s tough-on-crime agenda wrong-headed

Re: "Prime Minister's tough-on-crime agenda energizes base, appeals to swing voters," (The Hill Times, March 22, p. 1). The Conservatives' crime and drug policy has three parts: 1. To pander to myopic, media-addled, punishment-fetishists who make up their voter base and who think jail is ...

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