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October 13 Rally
OPSEU members and supporters
rallied at Queen’s Park on October 13, 2005, to protest the
McGuinty government’s plan to offload Ontario’s provincial
parole system to the federal government.
Ontario’s Parole and Early
Release Board has one of the toughest release records in
Canada, while staff at 125 Probation and Parole Offices
across the province provide direct supervision to all
parolees in the community. The provincial government’s plan
to offloading responsibility for parole to a much weaker
federal system poses a real threat to the safety of Ontario
communities.
OPSEU members and supporters
rally to save Ontario’s parole system.
OPSEU
President Leah Casselman speaks about Ontario’s parole
system and its vital role in keeping communities safe.
Ontario NDP
Justice Critic Peter Kormos calls on the McGuinty government
to maintain provincial control of the parole system.
Gord Longhi,
Probation and Parole Officer representative on the OPSEU
MERC team for Community Safety and Correctional Services,
describes the importance of OPSEU members’ work in the
parole system.
Mark Stehlin
speaks on behalf of the Parole Officers Association of
Ontario.
Leah Casselman
joins OPSEU members in the crowd.
OPSEU members
talk about parole and the threat to Ontario communities with
Tory Community Safety and Correctional Services critic
Garfield Dunlop, who spoke at the rally.
Community
safety: is Dalton McGuinty about to break another promise?
Bob Runciman,
former Tory Minister of Public Safety and Security joins the
crowd.
So does a
member of OPSEU’s canine unit.
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