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His common sense vision for public safety involves a big increase in addiction treatment programs, most of them private and some of them involuntary, meaning during incarceration. He wants indefinite apprehension of permanently brain-damaged habitual offenders now wandering the streets, on mental health grounds. That could involve invoking the notwithstanding clause in the charter of rights to bypass constitutional concerns if need be, he said.

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[โ€“] villasv@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes takes multiple cycles of conservative power for the people to swing back, and sometimes the damage done in the meantime is irreparable. Lives will be ruined, lives will be lost.

[โ€“] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Most definitely. The biggest danger is that Trump gets elected in the US and Candian christofascists double down on copying the US christofascist playbook to try to establish a christofascist dictatorship in Canada.