“Diddlers,” as Ontario Premier Doug Ford called child-molesters in a news conference this week, have been big in the news lately. Earlier in the month, Ford joined Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in demanding the federal government invoke the notwithstanding clause to protect the one-year mandatory minimum sentence for accessing or possessing child pornography. This after the Supreme Court narrowly struck it down. (The feds say they can address the bare majority’s concerns without resorting to the clause.)

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, proving that NDP premiers can do populism just as well as anyone, averred that he’d like to see criminal pedophiles buried beneath prisons — presumably having somehow been dispatched beforehand. And this

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