Misled

Angela Hall makes the fatal mistake of presuming that right-wing spin has anything at all to do with reality:

Returning to the city where he made a recent campaign promise to crack down on violent offenders, Saskatchewan Party Leader Brad Wall expressed support for Ottawa’s tough on crime bill despite the potential for added costs at the provincial level.
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“But we’re not going to oppose what we think is good legislation on the basis of this particular issue. We like the changes to two-for-one remand, we like what’s happening in the omnibus bill. We want to build on that with our own plan in this election but we’ll be advancing the case that if there’s an additional cost from a corrections standpoint there’s a role for the federal government.”

The federal bill includes changes such as the cancellation of double credit for time served in remand and mandatory minimum sentences for certain crimes.

So let's set the record straight: the bill to end two-for-one credit for time in remand passed in 2009. And it has nothing at all to do with the current omnibus bill with its ludicrous mandatory minimums.

Of course, Wall didn't explicitly say otherwise - but merely turned to the Cons' "tough on crime" talking points which had nothing at all to do with the subject at hand, only to be taken by Hall as deserving far more credit than was actually appropriate.

So a couple of handy reminders for the press covering the tail end of the election campaign:

It's never a good idea to take spin coming from a Harper Conservative surrogate at face value. And Brad Wall is a Harper Conservative surrogate.