{"id":6627,"date":"2010-11-30T07:13:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T11:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6627"},"modified":"2010-11-30T13:55:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T17:55:53","slug":"stinson-fantino-ideal-for-tories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/stinson-fantino-ideal-for-tories\/","title":{"rendered":"Stinson: Fantino ideal for Tories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Stinson<\/a> thinks that Julian Fantino’s victory in yesterday’s Vaughan by-election is great for the Tories’ “tough on crime” rhetoric:<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s what Mr. Fantino, who won a byelection on Monday to end a 22-year Liberal hold on the riding of Vaughan, had to say five years ago in response to a weekend of gun violence in Toronto, where he was chief at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t like me talking about stiffer sentences,\u201d he told the Post. \u201cBut in actual fact, so many of the people we deal with have been given but a kiss by the system, and I would say that the majority of them are all career criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chief Fantino\u2019s solution? A 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for gun-related crimes. Why, it\u2019s the kind of thing that must put a twinkle in Justice Minister Rob Nicholson\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n

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And it\u2019s the stuff for which Mr. Fantino has most recently been hotly criticized — allowing two-tiered policing at Caledonia, where native occupiers were allowed to break the law indiscriminately at a disputed housing development and his Ontario Provincial Police effectively abandoned the area rather than risk confrontation — that suggests he\u2019s used to following orders.<\/p>\n

The Ontario government didn\u2019t want any trouble in Caledonia, and thanks to the see-no-evil strategy employed by its police force, it has so far avoided an Oka-type battle down in Haldimand County. That this tactic saw the OPP giving passes to the same criminals for whom Mr. Fantino would typically demand harsh punishment apparently did not trouble the force\u2019s former commissioner. He seemed OK giving them \u201cbut a kiss by the system.\u201d He was being a team player.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For someone carrying such a “tough on crime” reputation, he has an odd view of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and other trivial matters when they’re being exercised by the citizenry. Due process? Not something he appeared to care much about during his time at the OPP.<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: Of course, no day is complete without someone trying to encourage the Liberals to bump off Michael Ignatieff<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Itching to see last night\u2019s federal byelection result in Vaughan blown completely out of proportion? High-profile cop defeats Liberal nobody — when will Michael Ignatieff commit ritual seppuku next to the Centennial Flame? That sort of thing? The Globe and Mail<\/em>\u2019s John Ibbitson has the goods<\/a> for you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Stinson thinks that Julian Fantino’s victory in yesterday’s Vaughan by-election is great for the Tories’ “tough on crime” rhetoric: Here\u2019s what Mr. Fantino, who won a byelection on Monday to end a 22-year Liberal hold on the riding of Vaughan, had to say five years ago in response to a weekend of gun violence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,53],"tags":[637,188,296,458,98,258],"class_list":["post-6627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-politics","tag-caledonia","tag-electionwatch","tag-michaelignatieff","tag-parliament","tag-police","tag-stephenharper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1IT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6627"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6629,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions\/6629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}