Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday that Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino should resign over convicted killer Paul Bernardo’s controversial prison transfer.
CBC News reported Tuesday that Mendicino’s office knew for months that one of Canada’s most high-profile murderers would be moved by Correctional Service Canada (CSC) to a medium-security institution.
But the minister’s political staff maintain they didn’t relay that information to Mendicino until the day after Bernardo was transferred.
The minister’s press secretary, Audrey Champoux, said Monday the office examined “possible options for potentially changing the decision” before it told Mendicino what CSC had decided to do.
“The minister was informed of the transfer on May 30, including
