Perhaps I should have been generalising my point and not be speciffic about Homolka and Bernardo but if you're about to defend the Canadian Justice System, you need to take a look at the big picture. In Canada a life sentence should be just that , a LIFE sentence, not seven years cut down to four years because of circumstances. I read of a guy who walked up to a car and put a bullet in the head of a business dealer he disagreed with and he was given 3 years. For every story that we hear of that was a farce for a light sentence we also have one about the guy who gets 10 years for a blue collar crime but that's just why the Canadian system sucks .There is little sense to so many crimes and the sentences applied and in to many cases the victims get shafted while the offenders either walk away or pay little for what they do. As for Homolka and Bernardo, perhaps if the Canadian Justice System were to clamp down on what lawyers loop hole their clients out of, Homolka would be in jail now. The police screw up all to often in their investigations because they can't beat the clever lawyers and the system . Tighten it up to work in the victims favor not the offenders.