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Letter: Jailing Thibault is a waste of money

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Re: “Too tough on Thibault” (Letters, Oct. 5)

Howard Greenfield asks what is gained by the incarceration of former lieutenant-governor Lise Thibault, who has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for claiming and receiving government money for personal purposes. I wound answer, as he implies: nothing.

Will it be a deterrent for others to do likewise? No, since no prospective criminal ever seriously considers the possibility of being caught, and even the existence and application of capital punishment in some U.S. states has not eliminated the occurrence of crimes that result in capital punishment in those states.

Could she be a repeat offender? No, since she no longer holds her former position and never will. She is 76 years old and confined to a wheelchair, and the Thibault name is known to everyone.

Did she hurt anyone? Certainly not physically, and the judge ruled that she owes our federal and provincial governments $300,000, which amounts to less than one cent per Canadian, an amount which, in our country where the physical penny no longer exists, is equal to zero.

Incarceration at her age while confined to a wheelchair combined with the medical attention she will need, will end up costing a lot of tax dollars.

In this age of ankle bracelets notifying police authorities should persons ever leave their areas of confinement, and say, the need for a judge to approve any outings only for medical reasons, the sentence of confinement to her home, for the four-year period, which the Crown lawyer had sought, combined with her paying back that $300,000, would seem to have been more appropriate.

Robert Marcogliese, Montreal


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