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EllieBC

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7. Not affluence. Just Canadian sentences.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 01:24 AM

Mar 2016

In a tiny town about an hour from Vancouver, some asshole 20 something year old plowed through an intersection and killed a woman. He was drunk. In the middle of the afternoon. It wasn't his first DUI.

He got 3.5 years.

The cost of a mother's life in Canada is apparently 3.5 years.

http://www.squamishchief.com/news/local-news/reece-handed-3-5-year-prison-sentence-1.1429204

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Wealthy Canadian sentenced in drunken crash that killed 4 [View all] Judi Lynn Mar 2016 OP

What, Affluenza is not a defense in Canada? angstlessk Mar 2016 #1

Canada has very strict DUI laws - ZERO alcohol if driving, and Americans are barred from entering... George II Mar 2016 #2

Nope. Article (as quoted above) references "legal amount". Obey your own sign: NO BS. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2016 #3

Could be the AP writer was framing the results using US measurements for a US American readership.nt Judi Lynn Mar 2016 #4

No. Same as USA. Come on, folks, this is easy with Google and Wikipedia Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2016 #5

10 years probabation? Otherwise, I can't wrap my head around this. nt valerief Mar 2016 #6

Not affluence. Just Canadian sentences. EllieBC Mar 2016 #7

Probably should have tried to get asylum in the US fbc Mar 2016 #8

Lock him up AND take away his wealth! Hulk Mar 2016 #9

Canada is so behind the times on understanding the scourge of being infected with Afluenza. marble falls Mar 2016 #10