Prime Minister and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino expressed shock after news of Bernardo’s transfer was made public last week
The Prime Minister’s Office was alerted months before notorious killer and serial rapist Paul Bernardo was transferred to a medium-security prison in May that the move was on the table, Justin Trudeau’s spokesperson said Wednesday.
“When a staff member in the Prime Minister’s Office was alerted in March by the Privy Council Office about the possibility of the transfer, inquiries and requests for information were immediately made to the Public Safety Minister’s Office,” spokesperson Alison Murphy said in a statement. Mr. Mendicino invoked the wrath of Parliament and the anger of the families of the victims of Mr. Bernardo on Wednesday after CBC News reported on Tuesday that his office had been told that Mr. Bernardo would be transferred to a lower security prison in March.
However, on Wednesday he issued a directive to the federal corrections service demanding they contact him directly about high-profile inmate transfers in the future rather than just his office.
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