Canadians fed up with government's soft on crime and drugs approach

[I am Groot]

I saw an obscene video last night. It was of two 'gentlemen' with duffel bags looting a Shoppers Drug mart perfume aisle. They didn't need to break in to do it. They did it in broad daylight, not caring who was watching or videotaping them. They filled up their bags and calmly walked out the door. No doubt you've seen other such videos of stores, esp, in Ontario, the LCBOs, where similar things occur.

I went to a Walmart this morning (I know, I know, ME in a Walmart?! Ick!) Because I needed to get a cheap new tablet to replace the one someone stole. Everything was locked away. Nothing was on display. You have to ask for it and the sales woman, once you find one, has to go and get a key and then the boxes she pulls out are mostly colorless and sealed. You can't open them unless you buy the damn thing.

The woman happily treated me to the kinds of thefts they've been subjected to on a continuing basis. This Walmart, btw, isn't exactly downtown. It's in a bedroom community of mostly home owners forty minutes from downtown by car.

This is Americanization of our law and order system is courtesy of liberal thinking. I assure you it wasn't like this when I was younger. That's because we had law and order back then and if you did something like trying to walk out of a store with a cart load of merchandise without paying everyone would grab you and the cops would take you away. Shoplifting back in the day was furtive - because it had to be. It doesn't need to be anymore. There's no fear of the law, no fear of anyone interfering, including store staff, and no fear of the police, who are hamstrung by regulations and low numbers.

This is the way American cities have gone due to shoddy, permissive, liberalized policing and judicial sympathy for the criminals before them. And it's only getting worse.