Youth crime growing
With all due respect, I disagree with fining the parents for the mischief of their children. It is the state’s social engineers who have taken away from the parents, the traditional tools of parenting. This could have been O.K. if the experiment had worked, but it is a dismal failure!
If I had done one, one millionth of what kids do today, they would have needed crazy glue to put back my head on my shoulders, since it would have fallen as a result of the slap my father would have given me.
I say that tongue-in-cheek, obviously since I didn’t get a replacement head (yeah, yeah, yeah. I can hear some of you thinking it might have been a good idea!). I’m talking about the RIGHT of parents to discipline their children as they see fit, with the usual provisos of non-cruelty, etc.
Then, you could envision parental responsibilities for the deeds of their children. The rest of the article, is fine by me.
Giuseppe
MP Tackles Crime on the Police Beat
Working as a cop for the day, Poilievre demands fines for offenders’ parents and offers youth scholarship for crime-fighting ideas
NEPEAN-CARLETON - Conservative M.P. Pierre Poilievre will join police officer Raymond Lamarre and 17-year-old crime victim, Jonathan Amor, as he proposes tough new anti-crime measures and announces a scholarship contest for the student who submits the best community safety idea to his website. Poilievre is working as an assistant to a police officer to learn more about crime fighting and community safety.
Poilievre proposes that:
• Violent or serious repeat offenders 14 and over are tried as adults. This will mean longer sentences for violent crime and less opportunity for early release.
• Parental Responsibility Act - a private members’ bill that Poilievre will introduce this fall that includes reasonable fines for parents in cases where youth crime is directly linked to inadequate parental supervision. Proceeds from these fines will compensate victims and taxpayers where appropriate.
Youth Scholarship - www.fightingforyou.ca is inviting any student - grade school or university - to compete for a $500.00 scholarship by submitting ideas on making the community safe from crime. Ideas must be submitted to www.fightingforyou.ca by the end of October and Poilievre will read the best among them on the floor of the House of Commons.
“Youth crime is a growing problem in communities like Barrhaven, Manotick and Bells Corners,” said Poilievre. “We must make young people part of the solution, provide serious consequences for offenders and ensure that parents take responsibility for keeping their kids out of trouble. That is what these proposals aim to do.”
