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An excellent read and essentially encapsulates why the U.S should not be doing business in Canada, especially in Ontario. The closest replica to the East German Stasi with far less accountability and major conflicts of interest with motivations.
Imagine being God in a country that tells you that we are a "democracy" with a Charter of Rights that police happily ignore.
I may finally be getting through to a few. The question is, will they sacrifice our nation for their cults?
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Ontario’s 1990 Police Services Act, which sets the legal standard for police discipline, dictates that officers’ paycheques can be cut off only in cases where they are both convicted of a crime and sentenced to jail time. The law, considered the most restrictive in Canada, means salaries keep flowing to cops awaiting trial on serious offences, including murder, or, as in Redmond’s 2018 case, to those convicted of a crime but not sentenced to jail.
The law has repeatedly caused public relations disasters for Ontario police chiefs. Before Redmond, there was Ioan-Florin Floria, the Toronto cop who made over $1 million while suspended with pay for more than a decade. There was Craig Markham, the former Waterloo cop who mocked his former employer for his three-year suspension in an email that thanked them for the paid time to play golf, travel and take a firefighting course. There was Richard Wills, the former Toronto cop paid up until he was convicted in 2007 of murdering his mistress and sealing her body behind a wall.
Even after an officer is fired, he can still be paid for months or more while appealing the dismissal, as in the case of former Toronto cop Matthew Brewer, whose July 2021 termination for “egregious” misconduct was put on hold for more than a year, pending an appeal that upheld the dismissal.
Imagine being God in a country that tells you that we are a "democracy" with a Charter of Rights that police happily ignore.
I may finally be getting through to a few. The question is, will they sacrifice our nation for their cults?
Why it’s so hard to fire an Ontario cop — even when they’re convicted
Convicted of drug trafficking, guilty of raping an unconscious woman, and recently fired, an OPP officer has been suspended with pay for nearly eight years. He’s still on the payroll.
Ontario’s 1990 Police Services Act, which sets the legal standard for police discipline, dictates that officers’ paycheques can be cut off only in cases where they are both convicted of a crime and sentenced to jail time. The law, considered the most restrictive in Canada, means salaries keep flowing to cops awaiting trial on serious offences, including murder, or, as in Redmond’s 2018 case, to those convicted of a crime but not sentenced to jail.
The law has repeatedly caused public relations disasters for Ontario police chiefs. Before Redmond, there was Ioan-Florin Floria, the Toronto cop who made over $1 million while suspended with pay for more than a decade. There was Craig Markham, the former Waterloo cop who mocked his former employer for his three-year suspension in an email that thanked them for the paid time to play golf, travel and take a firefighting course. There was Richard Wills, the former Toronto cop paid up until he was convicted in 2007 of murdering his mistress and sealing her body behind a wall.
Even after an officer is fired, he can still be paid for months or more while appealing the dismissal, as in the case of former Toronto cop Matthew Brewer, whose July 2021 termination for “egregious” misconduct was put on hold for more than a year, pending an appeal that upheld the dismissal.
