{"id":1877,"date":"2013-02-04T11:40:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T16:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalpardon.org\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2013-02-04T11:40:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T16:40:43","slug":"tough-on-crime-or-tough-on-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.nationalpardon.org\/?p=1877","title":{"rendered":"Tough On Crime or Tough On Employment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Star has been very supportive of the fight against the Tories tough on crime agenda. This is the fourth opinion piece of mine it has published and I would like to say how much we appreciate the support here at the National Pardon Centre.<\/p>\n<p>There is certainly room for improvement in Canada&#8217;s justice system but the Conservative government does seem to go overboard. The pardons legislation is a good example I think.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to read the article on the Toronto Star&#8217;s website simply <a title=\"Pardons, Employment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/editorialopinion\/2013\/02\/03\/ottawas_anticrime_agenda_hurts_canadians_looking_for_a_new_start.html\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/content\/dam\/thestar\/opinion\/editorialopinion\/2013\/02\/03\/ottawas_anticrime_agenda_hurts_canadians_looking_for_a_new_start\/dreamstime_criminal_recordjpg.jpg.size.xxlarge.letterbox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Star has been very supportive of the fight against the Tories tough on crime agenda. This is the fourth opinion piece of mine it has published and I would like to say how much we appreciate the support here at the National Pardon Centre. There is certainly room for improvement in Canada&#8217;s justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40,11,50],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pardon","tag-conservative-government","tag-criminal-record","tag-employment-issues"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tough On Crime or Tough On Employment? - National Pardon Centre<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Conservative Government is not tough on crime it is tough on employment. Stephen Harper. Vic Toews. Crime. 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