Ignorance of the Law

New data out this week, indicating that crime -- including violent crime -- is continuing to drop significantly across Canada.

In the face of this continuing trend, the Harper government in Canada continues to press legislation forward on mandatory prison sentencing and ensuring that those convicted spend more time in jail. 

The consequence of which is that those who continue to scrabble for lower tax rates, curiously ramp up a taxpayer-funded spending spree of gigantic proportions, on new and expanded prison facilities.

Although a bit of a non sequitur, the current actions remind me of the kind of sensibilities that apparently led a former governor of Texas (Ma Ferguson - 1925) to state: 

"If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it ought to be good enough for the children of Texas."