Each day we speak to people who are seeking to obtain a pardon for a criminal offence. Often, it is a one time occurence in a persons lifetime and they regret their actions deeply. They have served thier punishment and want to move forward in their lives.
The current law for receiving a Canada Pardon for an indictable offence (eg – Fraud over $5000, Theft over $5000, assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm, etc) is 5 yrs from the end of the persons punishment. There is a proposal by the current government outlined in Bill C23B that would change the waiting period from 5 to 10 yrs.
We believe this change in waiting period would be very detrimental to people with an indictable offence because they cannot re-enter society for too long of a period. Every employer in the country is doing criminal checks, so getting a decent job with a criminal record becomes next to impossible. Imagine and 18 yr old who gets convicted of an indictable offence cannot get a job until they are 30 years old. How is that person going to survive? Feed their family? Stay hopeful for the future?.
Here is an example from a person who recently contacted us seeking to obtain a Canada Pardon for a Fraud Over $5000 charge:
“It was nice speaking with you on the phone. This is my situation I went to court in May 28, 2008. I was convicted of Fraud over 5000 (indictable). I was put on Probation for 12 months. I also paid restitution and did 120 hours of community service for the crime I committed.”
“I paid all the restitution in full the total was 9471.87. I would like to work with disabled children. I have a son with autism. I can’t obtain an E.C.E or get a job in the child care field due to a mistake I made. I guess I have been punished but will be punished more for something I truly regret doing. If I could take this back I would. “
“My crime was committed when I was desperate and had no money. This is something I wish I could change. I am ashamed of what I have done. I have not committed anymore crimes. I can’t work for fear someone will find out.”
“I don’t want the legislation to change my life is already difficult. If it goes through I will be 46 years old before I can work with children because I won’t be trusted. I think I have already been punished enough. Thank you for listening”
Under the new laws proposed in Bill C23B, this person will not be eligible for a Pardon until May of 2019. How sad is that??
If you have any questions regarding this topic or about Pardons and US Entry Waivers email us at info@pardons.org or call 1-877-929-6011.
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December 21, 2011 at 9:42 pm |
Dearest Prime minister;
My name is Erik Parti – Over the period of my life I have suffered from many trials including growing up under the wing of a father whom saw battle in two wars, the efects of the trauma of that interfeered with my life as per what you see at war on the battle grounds is not what we would consider lawful here behind the borders of our contry.
Also, I have an accute alergy to mold and differnt toxins that plague alot of the buildings used for education built previose to the late 90s.
Thus I have what they use to call a learning disability, really its an allergy to poison, that simptoms are among dislexia.
Through out my child hood, I was sexcually assult by several mentors, and people I trusted, including a computer teacher in grads seven whom is doing time today for his inapropriete actions on students in a school that not only had a sexual preditor in its walls, but was ripped down due to mold and espestos several years after I had graduated.
Along side these many excuses, I also suffering many years of abuse, miss conduct and poor mentorship, I had other serious trauma from fluck accedent killing my entire work crew at the age of 17. This major incedent along side the many issues of lack of self esteem and self worth, and also beliefe in myself ever being sum budy lead me into seriose crime at the age of 18.
My criminal activity, at the age when to this day I regret not going into university, though I have been to cfolledge, went from a few joints, and some shop lifting and drinking with friends to extreme vioents lead by my new associates that picked me up at the bottum when my other two mentors aside from my war Dad where killed in a boating accedent along my other main “good” incfluence and 16 year old friend Greg Cook.
At 18 I went right into organized crime, lead by way of having friends, my friends had all been dropped in life all individuals but misslead, with other failures leading them to a life of 0 self esteem, and 0 real good influence.
Alot of my friends where also influenced by a man named Richy Roth, whom whould rape up after we did shoplifting jobs for him. Richy two has been jailed on account of his sexual crime against teenagers in Stratford, Ontario, where I am from, during the late 80′s and early 90′s, though he wasn’t jailed for everything.
What I am getting at, my Mother, my only sactuary was brutalized by a crazy man scared by war, and suffered as well from esteem issues disabling to be the most she could had to protect me, and interfeer at times when I was being punished for not being able to read, and not being able to comunicate to her the problems with friends, and teacher abuse, and sexual assult – I let my inner issues out through lighting fires, and burning amunition up until I got to know about drugs, gansterism and major crime.
I began smoking and injecting cokain at the age of 18 the cokain and drug world in southwestern Ontario is a major place for problematic lifes to constantly sink, especially for a young man and teen who believes he is an idiot, abnormal, looser, that is what the teachers told me.
As my addictions grew so did my lack of respect for the system and my believe that I would never become anything other the a ganster, criminal, drug dealer. I was not even aware of my sustaining sever drug addiction.
The process started for life change as I was incarserated for the first time at the age of 19 and was put into a ganster training school for 15 months consecutive on an 18 month adult incarseration in Ontario.
I had to fight off gangs, deal with violence, and learned that on the street might is right and if you don’t get caught its legal.
The vision I had of society was warped and ill, in need of the right combinatio of love, support influence and the ability to see a future for my self past the stink of my current situation and life style.
One of the things that took me away from the glamour that was accumulating in my life and self image of being a big tough thug was the dream of being an engineer someday and traveling the world, building buidlings that children would be free from contaminets in, and adults would be free from nausation causing depression, leading to abuse, and problems with people that don’t understand the results of my life long problems.
The bill in place to take away the ability for dreams of change regarding pardons is a sever mistake, I myself sit tradgetty after tradgedy holding on with simple hope for a good future.
Because of my criminal record I don’t get the respect from people I deserve, as today I am a real Canadian man, with love for the constitution, complete respect for the law, ding my best though I am not Jesus and claim perfection, I am a good man with good in my heart and the motivation and over all choice making that shows that I am not a criminal. The new bill that will see the ability for pardons to not be granted will sercomfent many chances for guys like me, and you don’t want guys that I use to be running around in a state of suicidal, lack of care because they believe there life will never change, you unless you have lived that side of the fence will not have empethy.
Look at me, the men in my life are real, and they are warrieor Wayne Kalistine influenced me, and the Bandito masicer, he tried to recruit me in 2004 right at the time when I was learning to stand on my feet and walk away from a word of criminality, if that hope did not presist in me, the hope for something better, you personally and every other Canadian would be in big trouble due to the lack of any resonable state I would posess, if I would have sworm my life to any of the many criminal organization across Canada, the dreaded Banditoes is just one, but a mjor one that I had no choice not to be infuenced by as they hung out right where my inocent little mother, walked our dog, and I spent many years catching the bus in East End London Ontario where many many youth and other loose there lifes both to gang violence “organized crime” both as victims, and thoughs that swear on to a patch or membership where death is the only exit from the street ereadily obtainable.
Do not make the wrong decision, strict ever punishment is not the key, nor support for people whom wish not to do things for them selfs, we need hope in our society, we need doors open to change for the better, not change leading away from Gods laws as we are seeing in many of the affairs that are pulling up the pillars and foundation of our country, as the Bible speaks of forgiviness, not the Americanization of hate in the form of loss of hope, and deathly punishement and acts that simply perpetuate the pain, using my father as an example he influenced so many people though he was a war hero, but he figured the governemnt provided no hope and the gorilla attidue of servival at all cost my Dad learned on the battle fields of Europ totallly screwed my chances of understanding how great Canada is just to follow the lines.
Do not let this new bill pass, put the breaks on hope squashers and that hate attidude towards criminals.
We need hope we need love we need Canadian spirit of open hands and big hearts, not closes doors and dead ends.