Release The Hounds

It keeps getting better and better.

While Canadians pat themselves on the butt thanking their good graces that they're not American they seem oblivious to the serious social issues facing this country.

For example, many Canadians would be surprised to know Canada his hight rates of assault crimes including rape.

Our educational system is not all what it could be. Post-secondary education, while cherished for cheap access, also renders corresponding mediocre results. In other words, you get what you pay for. There isn't a strong link between education and earning a living off it.

More recently, a judge in Quebec overturned a disciplinary action by a parent towards his own child thus rendering him impotent to raise his family. The judge, of course, cuts the legal umbilical chord and has no further social obligations to the child.

Now, it's the turn of a sex offender. Will the people who allowed him back on the street face the parents of his next victim? Assuming he does reoffend of course and by all accounts and statistics they generally do.

I'm not sure what path we're on anymore. There are little encouraging signs.