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Opinion: Are prisons safer than downtown encampments?

Three square meals a day and a warm dry place to sleep that is probably a lot safer than most downtown encampments
Moccasin flats
Temporary shelters are seen in the Lower Patricia encampment, named Moccasin Flats by its residents.

I watched an interesting Pierre Poilievre video Wednesday.

He started by recounting a story from a defense lawyer who has recently helped three clients extend their stay in prison beyond their sentence. Poilievre quotes the lawyer as saying that they would rather stay in prison than face the housing hell Trudeau has caused on our streets.

Quoting from Pierre Poilievre: "The truth is and joking aside for many young people and the working class, the housing market after eight years of Justin Trudeau is a prison. It is a prison of 350 square feet that costs $2000 a month."

This is just the first one minute and 20 seconds of an interesting video that I am wondering whether the mainstream media paid any attention to?

No wonder prisons look good. Three square meals a day and a warm dry place to sleep that is probably a lot safer than most downtown encampments across the majority of cities in this once great country of Canada.

I watched this and I was a little ashamed to be a Canadian today.

Wayne Martineau

Fraser Lake