Break a window, and pay for life

[shockedcanadian]

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/07/04/break_a_window_and_pay_for_life.html#


Thousands of Canadians who were never convicted of crime have their names in massive police databases, hampering job prospects, travel.


Robert Rotenberg, the Toronto criminal lawyer who represented King in his mischief charge, calls his client’s case, “laughably beyond outrageous.”

“We have a young man capable of doing extraordinary things in his life. Instead of embracing him and opening up opportunities, we’re sending him into this Kafkaesque bureaucracy.”

Currently, there are no firm rules about what records police can and cannot disclose in background checks. Discretion is left to individual forces and practices vary across the province.

[CanSocDem]

1. "Kafkaesque" indeed.

This from the city that employs a crack smoking drunk as its' mayor. Who in their right mind would want to work for an organization so out of touch with reality???



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[arikara]

2. This is bizarre

and the US uses stupid irrelevant stuff like this to deny entry.

One of my friends was in a blockade against clearcutting some irreplaceable old growth forest 25 years ago. The government of the day... the NDP, but that's another story... were so determined to end it in favour of the logging companies that they arrested over 800 protesters and charged them with criminal contempt of court. Because it was a criminal charge, no matter how hokey, my friend can't enter the US, but she can go to other countries with no problem... as long as the plane doesn't fly over the US.

I mean seriously, what threat is a 65 year old vegetarian pacifist? Yet that is exactly who they DON'T want in the US, pacifists and pot smokers.