Crimes and punishments
A woman convicted of murdering her mother in 2018 has been given a reduced sentence of six years and six months because she was in a psychotic state at the time. Ming Ye has already served three years since the incident.
A repeat drunk-driving offender who caused a crash that killed her friend and put herself in a wheelchair has been sentenced to four years in prison.
A Brossard story: on Monday a driver killed a pedestrian and gravely injured a cyclist in two hit‑and‑run incidents a few minutes apart. CBC spoke to the family of the woman who was killed, who sounds to have been a dynamo: coming to Canada in 2018 with minimal English or French, Huiping Ding opened a business and ran half marathons in her spare time. This item suggests there was no accident involved, but that the accused driver targeted two random people and attempted to kill them. He’s up on a litany of charges including murder.
david33 00:47 on 2020-09-11 Permalink
I’m sure this “justice” feels very fair to the families of the victims, and that if we all had a vote, this is the system we would choose.
Imagine you save 20 years and your entire life’s savings is stolen by someone you trusted, an accountant or a family member or whatever. Imagine then that there’s no way to recover the money, and that the end result is that you made years of small sacrifices, acted responsibly, etc. all to end up broke because you trusted the wrong person. Imagine the penalty for that crime in our country.
Then, instead of imagining that this person took all your money, imagine that they killed your spouse.
david33 00:53 on 2020-09-11 Permalink
Democracy in the sense of the demos, the Americans suffer from an excess, it’s apparent in every facet of life in that country.
Quebec and Canada, in things small (the ongoing debate over the supposedly autocratic imposition of bike lanes) and large (kill someone, don’t even go to prison in many cases, how the hell is a victim’s relation supposed to feel that’s justice?), we could probably use more democracy.