Politicians’ extradition
antics simply criminal

COMMON SENSE has long
left our body politic and
been replaced by common
nonsense — as shown, in
particular, by the antics of
the brothers and sisters of
the NDP in Ottawa in the
extradition issue.

Take the Ng case. Charles Ng is
the man wantec in the U.S. on
charges of mass murder. But so
far we have been unable to send
him back to face trial.

He has been in this country for
nearly five years, at enough cost
to the taxpayer to have kept a
dozen food banks going.

For four of those five years he
was able to hide behind one of
our nonsense regulations. That's
the one that permits suspected and
even actual murderers to eat well
and watch TV in a Canadian jail
if they face the death penalty in
their own country.

Joe Clark and other nonsense
pediars were responsible for that
one, under which even a foreign
Clifford Olson could stay here.

In the Ng case, though, there
was so much public rage that the

justice minister of the day finally —

signed an extradition warrant
without asking for an assurance
that Ng’s neck would be safe if he
were found guilty.

Progress. Of a sort. But he’s
still our guest because compas-
sion-crazed Solomons in parlia-
ment have made it impossible for
quick justice to be done. They
have created a Gordian knot of
laws, including the Charter of
Wrongs, that helps the Ngs more
than it hinders them.

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Doug
Collins

ON THE OTHER HAND

So phoney refugees get to Stay,
deportation orders are ignored,
criminals arrive, knowing they will
be here indefinitely.

If they commit a crime in
Canada they laugh even more.
That guarantees a prison sentence
that must be served before they
can be considered for extradition.
Which is what Ne did.

One MP who has been trying to
inject some logic into this
goofiness is Tory MP Bill Domm.
Without success, thanks to the
NDP, which has filibustered
Domm’s private member’s bill —
a bill that, if passed, would make
a few modest short-cuts in the
process. And in the NDP, B.C.’s
Svend Robinson and lan Waddell
have been the most obstructive.

lt was talked out again the
other day, just as it was in Oc-
tober. On both occasions there
was enough doubletalk to satisfy a

Tartulfe,

Ng's fawyer has used seven log-
ical steps. They remind one of the
Seven Ages of Man, and could A
take almost as long.

There were four steps in the
first round, ending with the
Supreme Court cf Canada. Then,
because the minister signed that
extradition order. another three
were opened through the Federal
Court, which deals with com-
plaints against the Crown.

That means it ends once again
with the Supreme Court.

Having Ng as our guest has
probably cost us a million bucks,
what with free board and lodging,
court costs, lawyer’s fees, and
special protection so that other
cons can’t do him in.

Last year, relatives of the dozen
dead whose murders Ng is accused
of committing came to Ottawa to
plead their case. A mother
described how he allegedly made
videos of her daughter. These
showed the girl handcuffed,
bound in chains, and begging for
her baby to be spared. Mother
and baby have not been seen
since.

{n Calgary, Ng got four and a
half years after putting a bullet
into a department store security
guard.

If common sense had ruled he
would have been sent back to the
U.S. pronto — with the condition
that he be returned to face trial in
Canada if acquitted in the U.S.

The Ng case is not a lone in-
stance. We also have a proved
murderer in this country. His
name is Joseph Kindier and he has
been here for six years.

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