I letting them buy bulets. r will be held in Whitby in 1870. If we want safer streets we have to focus on tightening up our I 0 James Black of the Abion Hotel in Whitby has opened a hotel in Toronto. crimninal justice system as weli as enforcing the laws already on the 0 aulH ohaehsmvdhsla fiet h uligsuho the Royal books. Hotel. Alex Shepherd is MP for Durham riding which includes Whitby, 9I R. and J. Campbell are selling men's tweed suits at $10 to, $12 each. north of Taunton Road. To reach his constituency office, cail P_____________________________ 721ý-7570 <Oshawa). WViitby Free Preou, Wedresday. November 30,1994. Page 7 ........................................................*.* ....... Justice in 'shambles' By Ajax Shepherd Durham rlding MP Events of past weeks.have given us lots to think about regarding the administration of justice in Canada. Saskatchewan farmer and Ioving father Robert Latimer confessed to killing his disabled 12-year-oid daughter Tracey and received a 10-year jail sentence without parole. Mickey McArthur, one of the accused in the botched Port Perry bank robbery, walks f rom Millh aven aftter servinq only six years aven though ho s a policeman and escaped while n custody. Drunks are acquitted of rape by successfuily arguing before the courts they didn't know what they were doing. Are we ail shaking our heads and q uestioning why our j udges are sentencing people the way they are? Obviousir Latimer broke the iaw. Parents just don't murder their disab1d ciIdren. But is what he did worse than what McArthur did, or convicted pedophile Wray Budrea who is on the street right now after moiesting children for 30 years. His own psychologist says ho could molest again. Budrea has oniy served six years. Under our justice system, is no one respoinsible for their actions? And how do we resolve these inconsistencies in sentencing? I don't think you start by amonding the criminal code using terms such as "sexuai orientation" when judges and Iawyers don't know what the term means. Justice Minister Alian Rock says they do know. i have asked judges and they say they do not understand what the term "sexual orientation" means. Remember Clifford Oison, the animal from British Columbia who murdered children, both maie and female. Are his crimes Iess despicable because ho murdered maies and femaies equally? These are the sorts of unanswered questions a term such as "sexuai orientation" encourages.__________________________________________ i have told this to the Justice Minister and he's not istening. He wants to continue pushing Bill 0-41 which would protect the homosexuai community from acts of hate -- and l've no problem .. ... with that -- but ho stili doesn't want to define "sexual orientation" n , u u e the legislation. We need iaws that are clear. For exampie, we need iaws that will allow a jury more discretion when it comes to sent encing. We need iaws that would ailow for the incarceration of criminals who can't be cured of sexuai crimes. The Solicitor General said such a law flies in the face of our Charter. That may be so. But perhaps we need a constitutional amendment to the charter to protect Canadians instead of protecting rminais and perverts. For alon6g time now 1 have been trying to get a tour of Milhaven. K i'efi~ybeen granted one. You can be sure my f irst question will be why is it harder to get in than it is to get out. The administration of justice in this country is in a shambles. Our criminai code is almost 100 -years old and no longer works. It must be overhauled. Our criminal courts are bogged down and this works in favour 0f this country's criminal element. 1 think Canadians have had enough. Cleaning.Up the streets A iackadaisical attitude toward guns by the criminal justice system is causing neighbourhoods to live in fear. We need not look SANTA CLAUS PARADE ON BROCK STREET SOLJTLI, DEGEMBER 1969 any further than Oshawa's south end in the aftermath of Roger At right of this picture is Bill Bow who played the p art of a clown in almost al Pardy's murder at Gagnon Sports to see this. Whitby"s parades from the 1950s to the 1970s. The Whitby Chamber of Commerce Some people are caliing for an al-out ban on ail handguns, and on înated Whitby's Santa Claus Parade 40 years ago and Inter turned over its operation at first glanco this a seem appropriate. However, a study of to t Whitby Jaycees. This year's parade is on Saturday, Dec. 3. htyAeispoo homicide statistios, and opinions of some Iaw entorcers suggest that banning guns in the possession of people who legaily own them -- target shooters, hunters, coliectors, etc. -- isn't going to soive the violent crime problem. 10 YEARS AGO The legal gun owners are the people who have gone through From the Wednesday, November 28, 1984 edition of the rigorou courss-and ave-*tei#-nsregistred.They aethe WITB FV REE .PRESSg 1