Another week, another gambit by Pierre Poilievre to whip up outrage with one of the oldest, cheapest political tricks in the book.

It goes like this:. Find one or two egregious crimes that resulted in seemingly outrageous prosecutorial or sentencing decisions and use them as proof that Canada’s justice system is fatally flawed. Present your examples as a growing trend, whether or not you can back your claim with statistics. Blame the “problem” on your soft-on-crime political opponents and crow about how your party would introduce more punitive laws that would fix everything.

The most recent example was a break and enter in Lindsay, Ont. that caused an uproar after charges were laid against both the intruder and the victim who fought back. Court records allege that Michael Kyle Bre

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