Poilievre unveils three strikes and youre out crime plan. Will it work? – National [Video]

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pledging the “biggest crackdown on crime in Canadian history” by targeting three-time serious offenders with maximum life imprisonment.

The Conservative Party of Canada unveiled its crime plan Wednesday, proposing to pass what it calls a “Three-Strikes-and-You’re-Out” law.

Under this policy, anyone convicted of three serious offences will become ineligible for bail, probation, parole or house arrest, Poilievre said at a campaign stop in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., on Wednesday.

These three-time serious criminals will serve a minimum prison term of 10 years and up to a maximum life sentence, he said.

Poilievre added that the proposed law would also designate such perpetrators as “dangerous offenders,” a legal classification that means an offender cannot be released until they can demonstrate they are no longer a danger to society.

“We need a change. A lost Liberal decade of soft-on-crime, hug-a-thug policies has made life more dangerous,” he …