Genevieve Breton

The Hill Times discovers that Rob Nicholson was vice-chair of a Parliamentary committee that, in 1988, advised against pursuing mandatory minimums. Mr. Nicholson’s director of communications attempts to explain the distance between that report and the Justice Minister’s current rhetoric.

While agreeing on the use of the word “failure” to describe the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the Prime Minister and Justice Minister apparently differ on the applicability of the word “unmitigated.”