MCGUINTY LIBERALS NOT PROTECTING COMMUNITIES
Runciman says Attorney General more concerned
about his public image than safety
Queen’s Park –
The McGuinty Liberals are refusing to act to
protect Ontarians in three different high profile
criminal cases, Opposition House Leader Bob
Runciman said today.
“The Attorney General has the responsibility
to ensure people feel safe in their communities,”
said Runciman. “Instead he seems more
concerned with holding press conferences than
protecting the residents of Bolton, Toronto
and other communities across the province.”
Runciman pressed the Attorney General on three
alarming cases and received no assurances that
public safety would be protected:
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Despite repeated questions
from Opposition Leader John Tory, the
Attorney General has no answers as to
what action is being taken to prevent
a man charged with the first-degree murder
of his wife in a school parking lot from
returning home to a Bolton neighbourhood,
released on bail.
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Similarly, the Attorney General had
no answers regarding the release of career
predator Lawrence Sears, a man convicted
of 22 child sex charges, who will complete
his full prison sentence in June and likely
settle in Toronto. This man has been described
as an untreatable pedophile.
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In another case, Ralph Power is shortly
being considered for parole. In 1981, in
Toronto, he murdered 20-year-old aspiring
model Cheryl Gardner from Gananoque. He
beat Cheryl to death with a hammer, attempted
to kill a second woman six days later and
felt no remorse after confessing to Cheryl’s
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“These are disturbing cases that have
the Ontario public on edge,” said Runciman.
“If these people were pit bulls they would
be banned but instead they may be released into
the public. The Attorney General needs to take
action quickly to protect the public.”
For Further Information:
Bob Runciman
(416) 325-1522
