Mr. Speaker, under the Liberal regime Keith Lawrence is living proof that crime does pay. Anyone who reads this career criminal's history would certainly concur.
In 1972 Lawrence escaped Collins Bay Penitentiary after three years into his 13 year sentence for armed robbery.
Recaptured in March 2001, after 29 years on the run, this escaped convict received only eight months for his prison breach and only two years after being convicted of defrauding Workers' Compensation out of millions of dollars in two provinces while on the run using a number of false identities.
The judge justified the lenient sentence based on a totally false assumption that this wanted man had been gainfully employed for the last 30 years he was on the run.
Out after a year and a half of this new sentence, Lawrence's parole was revoked after he allegedly assaulted his common law wife.
Tomorrow this career criminal will once again seek parole. I implore the parole board to send a clear message to this career criminal: Crime does not pay.