Posted on 16/02/02
Scourge of the homeless
Ontario Finance Minister Jim Flaherty was looking for publicity, and he found it. Seeking to separate himself from the others in the province's Conservative leadership race, he said it was time to jail the homeless. That would be the last resort, if they refused to go to shelters, or to addiction rehab centres, or to hospitals. But however you slice it, he would criminalize the fact of living on the street. "It will be illegal to live in public places."
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