Pubdate: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 Source: Montreal Gazette (CN QU) Copyright: 2011 Canwest Publishing Inc. Contact: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/letters.html Website: http://www.montrealgazette.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/274 Author: Sheila McCarthy THE CRIME BILL AND JUSTICE I was in total agreement with Stephen Maher's comments until reaching the final paragraphs, in which he suggested aging boomers will support tough-on crime policies because they feel vulnerable. Although I'm a boomer, I think most of the measures in the wide-sweeping and cleverly named crime bill that the Conservative government just introduced will not keep me safer at all. The money involved would be better spent trying to solve the social issues that give rise to crime. It's the thought of Stephen Harper in power for the next five years and beyond that will, as Maher put it, drive me to drink; that, and being dismissed as being so "vulnerable" that I don't know the difference between good policies and bad ones. Sheila McCarthy Montreal - --- MAP posted-by: Richard R Smith Jr.