Canada relies on US for Justice

Today in the United States, Clay Roueche, leader of the Canadian based "UN Gang" was sentenced to 30 years in prison. This violent gang leader, who made millions smuggling drugs into both Canada and the United States got the kind of sentence that is the stuff of dreams here in Canada. Considering these were only drug and money laundering charges, there is no doubt in my mind that if Mr. Roueche had been tried in the true north strong and free, he'd be walking free in far fewer years than 3 decades, assuming he got any sentence at all. Canada has long taken such a soft approach to crime that many big American cities are safer than their Canadian counterparts and now we are relying on the Americans to dole out the justice we seem incapable of dishing out ourselves. How pitiful is this? We send our pregnant women to the US because we run out of hospital rooms, we send our criminals to the US because we can't deliver justice, we send out troops into combat on American planes and boats because we won't fund our own military adequately, and the list goes on. Let's hope Canadian prosecutors and politicians wake up and try to deal with our problems ourselves.