Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is speaking out against Canadian legislation permitting male offenders who identify as female to be incarcerated in women’s prisons, after a man convicted of murdering his family asked to serve his life sentence in a women’s prison.
Mohamad Al Ballouz, who now identifies as a woman and goes by the first name Levana, was handed a sentence of life imprisonment with no chance of parole for 25 years at his Dec. 20 sentencing hearing in Quebec for the 2022 murders of his wife and two young sons.
Quebec Superior Justice Eric Downs described as a “femicide” the “extreme violence” and brutal manner in which Al Ballouz’s wife, Synthia Bussières, was repeatedly stabbed, and said it was illustrative of “the sadistic character of the accused.”…