From Full Pundit

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/25/357702.aspx

In an interesting piece in the Ottawa Citizen, James Morton argues that "our Criminal Code is based on a society that no longer exists and assumptions that, if ever true, are clearly false today." Which is to say we're a far more urban, secular and multicultural country than we were when it was developed (though he never really explains why multiculturalism is especially relevant to the problem), and that human beings have since been shown to be pretty much immune to crime-deterrence, and prisons have been shown to be pretty much useless in preventing recidivism. As such, Morton demands a wholesale rewrite, among even bolder ideas: "Should we replace the entire system of adversarial court battle with something closer to a prosecuting magistrate?" Perhaps, he says, these would be suitable topics for the Liberals' upcoming Big Brainy Conference (or whatever it is they're calling it) in Montreal.

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