BEXTE: Danielle Smith should use the notwithstanding clause to keep us safe
Albertans are being terrorized by random attacks and assaults, and this stems largely from one major flaw in the Canadian justice system.

Keean Bexte

May 11, 2023

Albertans are being terrorized by random attacks and assaults, and this stems largely from one major flaw in the Canadian justice system: catch-and-release bail.

BEXTE: Danielle Smith should use the notwithstanding clause to keep us safe

UCP leader Danielle Smith announced this week that if she is re-elected, Alberta will monitor dangerous criminals out on bail with ankle bracelets. These offenders would be tracked by sheriffs 24/7.

“We will ensure that criminals out on bail when they shouldn’t be have more eyes on them. There is no free pass in Alberta,” Smith declared.

We know that between September 2018 and October 2022, approximately 62% of violent criminals in Alberta were granted bail. 

Just this month outside Crawford Plains School in Edmonton, a mentally ill 33-year old man who police refuse to name randomly and fatally stabbed a mother, Carolann Robillard, and her 11-year old daughter. The man, who also had attempted to enter the school but was denied, had a lengthy criminal record that included robbery and assault of minors.

Bleeding-heart liberals and the mainstream media are trying to convince us to feel sorry for the criminals who terrorize our cities – even the murderers and sexual abusers – because they may be suffering from homelessness, addiction, and mental health issues.

We need to cut through their propaganda and remember who the true victims are: those who have been stabbed, shot, and assaulted.

If the Trudeau Liberals try to stop Smith’s ankle bracelet plan, Alberta should invoke the notwithstanding clause to ensure violent criminals and repeat offenders are closely monitored and prevented from further tormenting Alberta residents.

Additionally, Smith has already proposed the idea of a Compassionate Intervention Act, which would allow the province to issue tickets to addicts so that they must appear before an “intervention commission,” where they will be offered help to get clean.

It’s possible that the notwithstanding clause will also be needed to allow this Compassionate Intervention legislation to go forward, seeing as so many activist social workers believe the only way to help drug addicts is to freely hand out state-sponsored sachets of “safe drugs.”

Danielle Smith has also called for a repeal of Bill C-75. Bill C-75, which passed federally in 2019, dictates that offenders must be released as quickly as possible, and with the least onerous conditions, even if they are violent and repeat criminals.

Under the bill, indigenous people and individuals from “marginalized backgrounds” get special consideration to avoid imprisonment, because leftist legal activists view them as “overrepresented” in the justice system.

It’s time to show Justin Trudeau that we won’t tolerate this violation of the social contract. 

We go to work, pay our taxes, and uphold peace and order within our own lives, just to have a looming threat over us that we could be the next victim of a violent criminal freely lurking around while on bail. 

If an Albertan charged with murder or violent assault with a weapon is granted bail, even when they are deemed a risk to the public, the province should be able to keep its citizens safe by monitoring these killers, creeps, and lowlifes with ankle bracelets.

The Alberta NDP can stay in la-la land where they muse about defunding the police, but the rest of us are serious about locking up criminals, solving the public safety crisis, and ending catch-and-release bail.

Until Trudeau is forced to fix the federal system, it’s likely that a Smith UCP government will have to invoke the notwithstanding clause to keep us safe. 

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