The transfer of Terri-Lynne McClintic from the high-security Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ont., to the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge for Aboriginal Women in Maple Creek, Sask., is the sort of thing where Conservatives hold all the cards. In an exchange in the Ontario legislature Tuesday between three Tory MPPs, each declared himself shocked, outraged, saddened, and shocked again. Public safety minister Michael Tibollo promised to take it up with the feds. And indeed, I’m a bit surprised the federal Conservatives didn’t raise it in their own question period. This is a disgrace that should bother tough-on-crime types and bleeding hearts alike.
A horrifying refresher — fair warning — for those who need it: April 8, 2009, was the first day eight-year-old Tori Stafford was allowed to walk home by herself from Oliver Stephens School in Woodstock, Ont. She never made it. McClintic, then 18, struck up a conversation as school let out, then lured her into her 28-year-old boyfriend Michael Rafferty’s car with the promise of seeing a puppy.
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