{"id":18241,"date":"2011-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalpardon.org\/crime-bill-passes-the-house-2\/"},"modified":"2011-12-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T00:00:00","slug":"crime-bill-passes-the-house-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.nationalpardon.org\/?p=18241","title":{"rendered":"Crime Bill Passes the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Omnibus crime bill cleared the House of Commons yesterday much to nobody&#8217;s surprise. There remains the faintest of hopes that we will still see some amendments but I am certainly not going to hold my breath. Mind you the way this &#8220;debate&#8221; has been handled it would be fair to expect the absurd rather than business as usual so who knows.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate there isn&#8217;t really much at all to report on at this point. The bill cleared the house with a solid majority of votes:\u00c2\u00a0157-127, to be exact. Now it just has to go to the Senate but since the Tories have a clear majority there as well we can expect to see\u00c2\u00a0the omnibus train wreck (to mix metaphors) become law pretty soon.<\/p>\n<p>I apologize for the jaded nature of this particular post but it has been a frustrating process to say the least. I will continue to maintain hope that we will see some amendments but if I had to bet my money I would say we should expect <a title=\"Canadian Pardon\" href=\"http:\/\/np.verodecor.com\/canadian-pardon\/\" target=\"_blank\">pardons<\/a> to become <a title=\"Information on Record Suspensions\" href=\"http:\/\/np.verodecor.com\/learning-center\/record-suspensions\/\" target=\"_self\">record suspensions<\/a> very soon. We\u00c2\u00a0can expect to see certain categories of offenders excluded from the program,\u00c2\u00a0putting them\u00c2\u00a0on a clear path towards a consistent life of crime. And we\u00c2\u00a0can expect\u00c2\u00a0see the waiting periods for eligibility to be extended.<\/p>\n<p>As for the other measures in the bill, more qualified people have commented on them extensively. There is no shortage of criticism. So I will just leave it at that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Omnibus crime bill cleared the House of Commons yesterday much to nobody&#8217;s surprise. There remains the faintest of hopes that we will still see some amendments but I am certainly not going to hold my breath. 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