{"id":2419,"date":"2013-03-27T18:08:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T18:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalpardon.org\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2013-03-27T18:08:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T18:08:40","slug":"how-to-get-a-pardon-in-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.nationalpardon.org\/?p=2419","title":{"rendered":"How to get a pardon – circa 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has now been more than ten years since the National Pardon Centre opened its doors. Back then pardons were kind of a new thing, especially in Montreal where our first office is located. I guess that’s why Canada Now did a news story on our opening. Ten years later I can’t help but look back and think that we were just a couple of kids, but I guess ten years does that at any age.<\/p>\n

An interesting thing to consider is that if I’d been convicted of an indictable offence at that time I would most likely still not be eligible for a pardon after Stephen Harper’s omnibus crime bill. I’m glad that never happened of course.<\/p>\n

Here is the Canada Now story. I’m posting it for purely historical reasons.<\/p>\n