Zipperfish Zipperfish:
Well, unless I'm sorely mistaken the government currently in power is Conservative, and has been for the last couple of years.
The problem with Conservatives is that they talk a lot about "responsibility" (such as, criminals should be responsible for their crimes), but they don't actually take any responsibility for what happens under their watch. They, like the criminals using the system, are constantly blaming every one else.
Kind of hard to toughten up the laws, Zippy, when a Liberal-dominated senate stalls, stymies, and delays most legislation for months after the lower house approves it. At least the Tories want to do something. If the Liberals win or, even worse, some sort of hideous mutant bastard of a Liberal/NDP/Bloc coalition gets formed, look out for a wave of criminality like we've never seen before as such a electoral victory would clearly signal to every dirtbag in the country that a criminal free-for-all would be in the offering.