‘Nobody wins elections if they’re portrayed as soft on crime’

Crime rate has fallen 15 per cent, but Conservative government still pushing law and order agenda

The Parliamentary Budget Officer would prefer not to do any more studies into the costs of the Harper government's slate of law and order legislation, saying it's now up to Parliamentarians to demand that full cost estimates are provided for the rest of the proposed changes to the justice system....

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