HUNTER: Poilievre wants an end to murder freebies. Carney? Not so much

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Jacob Forman was a grey, throbbing muscle of anger and resentment.

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That rage manifested itself on Dec. 17, 2017, when his wife, Clara, confronted him about his boozing at their Kelowna home.

He was having none of it and proceeded to bash her in the head three times with a sledgehammer.

After taking his daughters, seven-year-old Karina and nine-year-old Yesenia, to church, they returned home, where he strangled his young children to death.

Before murdering them, Forman told the girls: “(It was better) to go home to heaven than to grow up in a world where their daddy killed their mommy.”

Forman is a beneficiary of the eye-rolling 2022 Supreme Court of Canada decision to bar sentence stacking. Essentially, the gang on the Rideau decreed that if you kill 10 people, you get nine free.

The child killer was originally handed a life sentence and no chance of parole for 35 years. It was the longest sentence ever issued in soft-on-crime B.C.

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On Monday, Pierre Poilievre announced that a Conservative government will give judges the power to sentence murderers who kill multiple people to consecutive prison sentences without parole eligibility beyond 25 years.

“For the worst mass murderers, a life sentence should mean what it says: A sentence for life,” Poilievre said. “These monsters should face the full consequences of their actions. Every life matters, and a killer who takes multiple lives should be held to account for each one. There should be no discounts for multiple murders.”

Of course, the famously woke Supreme Court torpedoed the 2011 bill, ditching discounts, fretting that stacking sentences was … WAIT FOR IT … “cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.”

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You could also say that murder is “cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.” But then again, we live on earth, not in the lofty environs of space cadet camp.

In effect, the SCOC was offering up homicidal discounts to some of this country’s worst killers. The CPC called the court “shockingly out of touch with the sentences the Canadian public expects for the worst killers.”

In addition to Forman, who so cruelly murdered his wife and two children, a veritable Dick Tracy rogues gallery of Canada’s most heinous villains got the 2022 discount.

Quebec mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette slaughtered six worshippers in 2017, was sentenced to 40 years in the slammer without parole. The SCOC gave him a 15-year discount, meaning he could be among us by the time he is 49.

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That’s 10 to 20 years of potential homicidal activity.

Dellen Millard racked up a 75-year sentence for the murders of his father, his former girlfriend, and an innocent Ancaster man named Tim Bosma. He, too, gets a break.

As did Moncton maniac Justin Bourque, convicted of murdering three Mounties during a 2014 shooting rampage. Bourque was hit with 75 years in the slammer without parole. If he gets parole, he’ll be sprung by his 50th birthday.

Meanwhile, Liberal Leader Mark Carney called Poilievre’s vow to use the notwithstanding clause a “very dangerous step.” The former banker said it’s his job and that of the government to defend the Charter.

He told reporters that politicizing crime concerning Charter rights is a “slippery slope.” Carney added that Poilievre has voted against every gun control measure.

“Being tough on crime starts with being smart on crime, and it includes being tough on guns and gun violence,” Carney added, pointing to the Liberals’ latest measure targeting Uncle Fred’s squirrel rifle.

Of course, anti-sentence stacking advocates will tell you: “Don’t worry. Forman will never get out.”

But here in the real world, we live in Canada, where what was once unthinkable is now tragically commonplace.

bhunter@postmedia.com

@HunterTOSun

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