Poilievre calls for Mendicino to resign over handling of Paul Bernardo transfer

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Marco Mendicino should resign or be fired over his office’s handling of knowledge that Paul Bernardo was being transferred to a medium-security prison. 

Poilievre points out that when the Correctional Service of Canada’s decision to move the convicted killer and serial rapist from his maximum-security penitentiary became public, the minister of public safety said he was shocked. 

The Conservative leader is now calling that reaction a lie, given reports that the correctional service informed his office at least three months before the transfer and again several days before Bernardo was moved. 

A spokesperson in Mendicino’s office has said the minister only learned of Bernardo’s transfer to a medium-security prison once it happened.