U.S. Prosecutor Feels Burned By Firestorm Over Sex Offender Sent To Canada

US citizens should face the US justice system for crimes committed in the US. It's as simple as that. Whether that means a jail term or probation does not matter.

Bouquets to both Stephen Harper and Dalton McGuinty on this one.

Frank Clark overstepped his authority by making a US court decision that affects Canada. That's not possible.

The US already has the highest number of inmates per 100,000 of the population in the whole world. One person serving probation does not make a difference.

Stephen Green is also out of line, because any Canadian (whether a politician or not) needs to stand up when the criminal system in the US imposes something inappropriate on Canada.

US citizens should face the US justice system for crimes committed in the US <<

Actualy untill now, I thought the teacher was Canadian. Your point is still made. Anyone committing a crime in any country is subject to the punishment delt by that country. Often we see Canada coming to the aid of a Canadian who was found guilty of a crime in another country. Even if the punishment is more severe then if the crime had been in Canada, the crime should still be punishable by that country.. Thirty years or 40 lash's for smuggling drugs should not be repealed. If one commits the crime then they should do the time. I'm appalled when a person of dual citizenship commits a crime in the other country but feels the punishment should be to Canadian standards or even served in Canada..

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He is not a Canadian citizen according to the press, he has landed immigrant status but under our charter of rights and freedoms he is entitled to all the rights that a Canadian citizen has under the law in Canada.

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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.

Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.

"he has landed immigrant status but under our charter of rights and freedoms he is entitled to all the rights that a Canadian citizen has under the law in Canada"

I think the so-called "Security Certificate" says otherwise, and a landed immigrant can be held indefinitely in prison without charges and without a fair trial and can be deported without appeal and without knowing why.

>"Security Certificate"<

Have a different set of rules and is applicable to non citizens and citizens. As long as he is on Canadian soil he has the same rights and freedoms under the law as any other citizen in Canada. If they had stoped him from entering Canada then his rights would have been a lot more limited.

It should also be noted he has not committed any crime in Canada and I think this point poses the biggest problem for Canadian authorities trying to prevent him from staying in Canada.

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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.

Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.

What is this guys ethnic background? He looks like he could be a North American native. I don't know if he is or not but if he is then a different set of rules may apply.

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Everybody got to deviate from the norm

Hey, now that's inappropriate to even think about asking.....

"Have a different set of rules and is applicable to non citizens and citizens."

My understanding is that the "security certificate" is applicable only to non citizens and it violates the text of Charter as do many Canadian laws. The security certificate was made valid and enforceble by politicians, Charter be damned.

I'm not sure where the courts are on this and it'll probably take years to be struck down, or it may forever be deemed "reasonable" in spite of the "guarantees" that we obviously don't have under the Charter.

I assume you were joking and that you understand that native north americans (at least status indians) are under a different set of rules than we lower-class immigrants and descendants of.

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Everybody got to deviate from the norm