“Bill C-232 would have required inmates who had been found to be dangerous offenders or those convicted of more than one first-degree murder to be assigned a security classification of maximum and confined in a maximum-security penitentiary or area in a penitentiary. Instead, the Liberal government voted against the bill.” – Niagara Falls Federal Conservative MP Tony Baldinelli
News from Niagara Falls Federal MP Tony Baldinelli and Canada’s Conservative Party
Posted June 10th, 2026 on Niagara At Large
A dated mug shot of convicted serial killer Paul Bernardo that I post with great reluctance here.
A Brief Foreword by Niagara At Large reporter/publisher Doug Draper – Those who are regular visitors to Niagara At Large may know that this online news and commentary site is not in the practice of posting crime stories unless they have to do with crimes against our natural heritage, other living species, and our environment in general. Outside of hate-driven attacks against people, I prefer to leave the rest of the crime coverage to the mainstream media.
Having said that, there remains an obvious, very understandable interest in Niagara and across the rest of the country in anything to do with convicted serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo that is very hard, if not impossible, to ignore.
And in the case of the latest news about him, posted below, I find it difficult to understand why any member of Canada’s parliament, regardless of their political stripes, would vote against a bill that ensures that an all-round monster like Bernardo is kept in maximum security prison for the rest of his life.
It may be that the Liberal government of Prime Minister Mark Carney does not want to put itself in any position of dictating or even being perceived to be dictating to Correctional Service Canada – a body that is supposed to be free of any political interference – what it is doing with prisoners under its jurisdiction. After all, we are seeing some very disturbing signs of Trump interfering in the justice system across the border in he United States.
With that, I now leave it to my fellow citizens in Niagara and the rest of Canada to express their point of view on this matter. – Doug Draper
Ottawa, ON – Tony Baldinelli, Conservative Member of Parliament for Niagara Falls—Niagara-on-the-Lake, released the following statement after the Liberal government voted down his Private Member’s Bill C-232, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (Maximum Security Offenders).
“Bill C-232 would have required inmates who had been found to be dangerous offenders or those convicted of more than one first-degree murder to be assigned a security classification of maximum and confined in a maximum-security penitentiary or area in a penitentiary. Instead, the Liberal government voted against the bill.
“This legislative effort was about doing what was right, by ensuring criminal monsters such as Paul Bernardo, Mark Smich, Dellen Millard, and Luka Magnotta were returned to serve their sentences in maximum security, where they rightly belonged. Sadly, these Mark Carney Liberals voted against this common-sense change.”
“These criminals should never have been allowed to be transferred from maximum-security confinement. Yet, because of bad Liberal policies in Bill C-83, that is exactly what happened in all of these cases.”
“The bill should have been considered a non-partisan and common-sense solution to an issue too often plaguing our criminal justice system. A system which seems to favour the rights of the offender over those of victims and their families.
“Bill C-232 would have helped restore Canadians’ confidence in our federal corrections system, and it would have demonstrated the deserved compassion to victims of crime and their loved ones, who are forced to live with the lifetime of pain and suffering caused by those who committed these unspeakable crimes.
“I made a promise to my constituents to fight to correct a bad policy decision made by the Liberal government. Despite this setback, I remain committed to ensuring changes will be made so that the rights of victims and their families are made the priority over those of the offenders.”
To watch a Hamilton CHCH TV report on this issue, aired two years ago, click on the screen immediately below. Please be advised that this news refers to the Liberal government of then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau –
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