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Colby Cosh: Liberals join Supreme Court in sticking up for mass murderers

Judges bumped up the parole hearing of an Edmonton man who killed three coworkers in 2012 by 15 years — with little pushback from Parliament

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On Tuesday morning, CBC’s Wallis Snowdon brings the latest in “Does Parliament govern Canada?” news with a short feature on a Conservative private members’ bill, Kerry Diotte’s C-243. The bill has been nicknamed “Brian’s Law” in memory of Brian Ilesic, a security guard killed in a 2012 mass murder at HUB Mall on the campus of the University of Alberta.

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A little platoon of guards were changing bills in a bank machine, not suspecting that one of their number, Travis Baumgartner, had decided to slaughter the others, grab the cash, and go on the run. He killed three of his co-workers, including 35-year-old Ilesic, and left a fourth with permanent brain injuries. Baumgartner made it to the Lynden border crossing near Langley, B.C. before getting busted with what was left of about C$400,000.

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This was, in other words, a crime of extreme perfidy layered on top of........

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