Over the weekend, Abdul Aleem Farooqi was killed in front of his wife and children during a home invasion in my city of Vaughan. A spouse is now grieving. Children are now without their dad. This is heartbreaking beyond words. No parent, no family, no community should ever have to live through such horror.

As mayor, I am furious. I am disgusted. And I am fed up with excuses. These tragedies are not random acts of fate. They are the direct result of a criminal justice and bail system in this country that continues to let all of us down — a system that rewards repeat violent offenders with freedom instead of punishment and puts entire communities in danger. It is a catastrophic failure of public policy that too many leaders have not had the courage to fix.

Criminals know this. They know th

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