Monday, December 15, 2014

Canada is a country of heinous crimes of grief and mourning, a land of human misery without any hope. An ocean of human tragedy, that their fierce waves drag millions of shattered lives. Nadir Siguencia

Former attorney general Michael Bryant is urging Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government to right a wrong he “failed” to do as Ontario’s top lawman.
A homeless man rests on a grate near Queen St. W. and Bay St. earlier this month. . Ontario's former attorney general says the Safe Streets Act "criminalizes homelessness" by allowing police to hand out tickets to panhandlers.
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             Criminalization of Homelessness by professional criminals              

‘criminalizes homelessness’
Former attorney general Michael Bryant is urging Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government to right a wrong he “failed” to do as Ontario’s top lawman.
                                                                               
News / Queen's Park: Gaetz estimated that it cost Toronto police almost $1 million in time to hand out $4 million in tickets between 2000 and 2010 — 99 per cent of which are never paid because homeless people cannot afford the fines that range from $60 to $500.                                                                                                                           Criminalization of Homelessness by professional criminals!           The mass media in this country are refusing to publish the truth about homeless people in Canada. Why they are living in the streets of this nation and whom is the responsible of this catastrophe. The world have to know that more than fifty percent of homeless people; their lives were mutilated by the government institutions.  “Canada is one of the richest countries in the world” but lacks public housing to assist homeless people; the annual statistics are showing that every year hundreds of homeless people are dying in the streets of this nation. The Canadian regime is guilty by the pain, the suffering, for the deaths, and by denies a roof which will protect poor people of the cold winter.                                                                                                                        
News / Queen's Park   Michael Bryant urges repeal of law that ‘criminalizes homelessness’
Former attorney general Michael Bryant is urging Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government to right a wrong he “failed” to do as Ontario’s top lawman.A homeless man rests on a grate near Queen St. W. and Bay St. earlier this month. . Ontario's former attorney general says the Safe Streets Act "criminalizes homelessness" by allowing police to hand out tickets to panhandlers.                                                                                                                                                         By: Robert Benzie Queen's Park Bureau Chief, Published on Mon Dec 15 2014                                                 Former attorney general Michael Bryant is urging Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government to right a wrong he “failed” to do as Ontario’s top lawman.                                                                                                               Bryant on Monday implored his fellow Grits to repeal the Safe Streets Act that police have been using since 2000 to charge panhandlers and so-called squeegee kids.                                                                             “Let’s stop arresting the poor for being poor. It criminalizes homelessness,” he said at Queen’s Park, noting people soliciting money for charities on city sidewalks are rarely ticketed for doing the essentially same thing.                                                                                                                                                                           Asked why the Liberal didn’t scrap the law enacted by former Progressive Conservative premier Mike Harris during his four years as attorney general under ex-premier Dalton McGuinty, Bryant did not mince words: “I failed. I am accountable. I have no excuses.”                                                                                     He noted that amending the law would be “consistent” with Wynne’s policies on poverty reduction and helping the mentally ill.                                                                                                                                               Stephen Gaetz, a York University professor of education and director of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, said the law is a “waste” of the justice system’s resources.                                                             Gaetz estimated that it cost Toronto police almost $1 million in time to hand out $4 million in tickets between 2000 and 2010 — 99 per cent of which are never paid because homeless people cannot afford the fines that range from $60 to $500.                                                                                                                           “That is a waste of money and a waste of services,” he said.                                                                                      Mary Birdsell, of the Justice for Children and Youth Legal Clinic, said the Act is “a primitive and degrading response to homelessness.”                                                                                                                                                  “It is mean, it is bullying, and it is beneath us,” she said.                                                                                         Officials in the office of Attorney General Madeleine Meilleur were not immediately available for comment.       

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