It is, and there comes a question that if you start to say some but not all, how do you choose? If someone murdered once or was convicted of one murder, are they less of a heinous person than someone who was convicted of two? At what point do you draw the line? We believe the courts and the laws of this land set certain standards for acceptable behaviour and certain standards for punishment when people do not practise the acceptable behaviour.
If someone, whatever the crime, has been determined to be serious enough through our national system and our provincial system, which reflect our citizens' standards, to have broken the law to a degree that they get certain punishment severe enough to be incarcerated, they are not entitled to OAS, we believe.