What would Dalai Lama say?

Dalai Lama recently paid a visit to Toronto. First, I would like to say that I must agree with the Lama, a pacifist route is the only way. Wars should be avoid at all cost and death should be avoided. Peace is the only way humans as a group can grow.

Then on the same day, the Tories announced a new thing. Apparently Canadians aboard will now be abandon provided they were sentenced to death in a ‘stable democratic county, that support the rule of law‘. Yet the only example so far is one state in the United States. Are we really ready to welcome capital punishment back into our courts? I am not, in fact, I was hoping we can talk the Americans into removing that sentence. It is not ‘right’ to murder another living person, no matter what that person had done.

So, after meeting with Dalia Lama, the best voice for peace I can think of aside from the Pope and mother Teresa, this is all the pants head at Ottawa can come up with? Oh maybe this is another part of that cost cutting strategies package, if we eliminate all the life sentences inmate, we may have an extra dollar in our pocket. Personally, I’d rather put that dollar in the system and keep them alive. It is historically proven that the Canadian Justice system are not always correct. We have seen several cases during the last twenty years that some inmates are wrongfully accused or wrongfully sentenced.

Are we, as a country, willing to take a life just because we thing they are wrong? What would Dalai Lama say to the Tories now?