XPost: can.general, can.politics, can.legal   
   From: cognomen@domus.ca   
      
   "Mad as a Box of Frogs" <~.¤@¤.~> wrote   
   > Please give it up to support the families left behind.   
   > To:  National Parole Board of Canada   
   >   
   > Stop Karla Homolka a.k.a. LEANNE TEALE from receiving a pardon.   
   > If you agree that this person should never be granted a pardon for her   
   > part in the heinous crime commited by her and her husband Paul Bernardo   
   > then please sign this petition.   
   > This petition will be forwarded to the National Parole Board of Canada   
   > when 5000 signatures have been obtained.   
      
   Good luck with ANY petition to the Harper government.  They will bloody do   
   whatever their   
   minority government wants to do.   
      
   Including continuing to give full pardons to sex offenders in Canada.   
   _________________________________   
      
   Daniel Leblanc   
      
   Ottawa — Friday's Globe and Mail - Apr. 09, 2010   
      
   Nearly all the sex offenders who apply for pardons in Canada successfully wipe   
   out their   
   criminal records from public view, despite the Conservative government’s   
   promise four   
   years ago to make the system tougher.   
      
   Over the last two years, 1,554 sex offenders applied for a pardon with the   
   National Parole   
   Board; only 41 of them were rejected, leaving 1,513 without a trace of a   
   criminal record,   
   unless they apply to work with children or vulnerable individuals.   
      
   The new numbers from the National Parole Board show that the 2.6-per-cent   
   rejection rate   
   for sex offenders is only slightly higher than the overall rate of failed   
   applications for   
   convicted criminals, at 1.5 per cent over the last two years.   
      
   The high pardon rate for sex offenders is surprising, given that the Harper   
   government   
   promised to change the rules long before the Easter weekend revelation that   
   hockey coach   
   and sexual predator Graham James had been pardoned in 2007.   
      
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