The Liberals have removed the mandatory minimum sentences on violent crimes as they felt it contributed to a system that disproportionately punishes the racially marginalized segment of our population.
Lots of excellent points in your post, Nitroxace, but I will focus on the one above, because for me, as a "person of colour", this one has the biggest implication on everything I stand against.
The entire system as it stands right now is geared towards abdicating personal responsibility out of a false sense that there is systemic racial injustice afoot and it permeates structures everywhere in society.
FALSE.
I can tell you vehemently that this is not the case. This is a manufactured and synthetically produced narrative to distract and shift the focus from certain communities which have a clear problem with personal responsibility, poor decision making, lack of educational focus, and a breakdown of family, specifically with absentee fathers and teenage mothers. The problem is that these issues are all now bundled under the guise of "poverty" (which absolutely is a prime consideration, but it cannot consistently be the crutch upon people rely).
We can see it not just in the justice system but in various segments in society. People seemingly are given a pass based on past injustices (which by the way I neither doubt nor deny - but how long are you going to be playing the victim card - ie like the Polys) - there comes a time where you realize it is 2021, and you can make good choices TODAY and stop blaming others.
The old adage applies - if you do the crime, you do the time. Lady Justice is blind, so it doesn't matter what your racial background or ethnic makeup is. Yet, we now have courts and lawyers who have been indoctrinated into this notion that yes, discrimination is not fair, but their practices clearly qualify this in indicating discrimination is bad one way but OK another. The fact that minimum sentences are eliminated is a travesty. Prison population is not a social experiment to ensure "diversity". If there are a great percentage of inmates that are of a particular racial or ethnic makeup, we should be asking why, and not starting at the end premise that there is discriminatory practices and then working backwards and but encountering and coming to terms with the fact that yes, there are higher representations of criminals from certain racial and ethnic groups. Why is that? That is important to determine in an objective manner. Does it mean everyone in that group are bad? Of course not - I have mentioned several exceptions in my past posts, who are personal friends of mine and have built great success stories and strong families - it came down to their rejecting the narrative that their "community" seems to have accepted. They rejected this, made positive choices in their lives and are now reaping the fruits and rewards. They would say EXACTLY the same thing I say - and they would get flak from others saying that making good choices and rejective the narrative are racist choices - it has truly become ridiculous how little society can properly process things in a logical manner.
As a visible minority guy, this bothers me greatly because oftentimes the public can lump all visible minorities together and think they are a monolithic voting bloc and share the same belief structure. For anyone who takes some time to have a look at things, you can see this is not the case. I have worked my whole life to counter this narrative. Each person should be judged on their merits based on their character and actions. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now back to the topic at hand - the Polys are a perfect example of embracing lifelong victimhood. They are truly no better than anyone else who plays the victim card. Lots of people have been dealt crappy hands - and lots of people just press on with their lives, not unhealthily living and become a slave to a dark past (which no one would deny). Just like others making excuses, the Polys have a outcome in mind - they just aren't sure how they got there, but heck - facts don't matter - they want to ban all guns despite counter evidence to the efficacy of such a decision - but they don't care - their outcome just be protected at all costs. They just need to know how to make the incompatible puzzle pieces fit so the puzzle looks like what they want. So rather than realize that their puzzle pieces don't this puzzle, they slowly start to cut the puzzle pieces, paint over them to try to make it match what they want it to be. If you have ever tried this, you will realize that the resulting puzzle looks like crap - like multiple Michael Jason surgical procedures - the result will not turn out to be what you think despite your constant cutting and shaping and colouring.