By Joel Goldenberg
The Suburban

A Conservative government will take strong action against the chaos and disorder prevalent in Montreal and across Canada from anti-Israel protesters, Conservative leader and candidate for Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre told The Suburban Monday during a press conference at the downtown Holiday Inn Monday.

Poilievre, accompanied by several Conservative candidates and flanked by those directly victimized or affected as family members by violent and deadly crimes, was in town to announce that a Conservative government would give judges back the power to sentence those who committed multiple or mass murders to consecutive prison sentences without parole eligibility for 25 years.

“For the worst mass murderers, a life sentence should mean what it says, a sentence for life,” Poilievre said. “These monsters should face the full consequences of their actions.”

Poilievre also spoke about chaos and disorder, and The Suburban pointed out that there has been a great deal of both in Montreal on the part of anti-Israel protesters. That includes recent vandalism at McGill and the protest at Quartier Cavendish in Côte St. Luc, where anti-Israel activists demonstrated against the showing of the movie October 8, which chronicled antisemitism following the 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel that left 1,200 dead.

We asked Poilievre what a government led by him would do to encourage local police to enforce the Criminal Code in such situations.

“After the lost Liberal decade of crime and chaos, and breakdown in our society, we can’t afford a fourth Liberal term,” he told The Suburban. ”We need a change to bring law and order and respect.”

Poilievre also condemned what he said was the Liberal approach of dividing Canadians.

“You see Mr. Carney playing Justin Trudeau’s trick of saying one thing to one group and exactly the opposite to the other, inflaming sides to cause division, while refusing to enforce the law. That will end when I’m Prime Minister. I will say the same thing to everyone everywhere!”

Poilievre emphasized that he will stand up for the right of Jewish Canadians “to proudly live their lives, practice their faith and enjoy their freedom.That includes wearing a Star of David, a kippah or having a mezuzah on their door, doing all of those things in total security.”

The Conservative candidate specified that a Poilievre government “will be bringing in tougher laws that crack down on hate-based vandalism, and on violence targeted at places of worship.We will bring in more security for places of worship and we will deport from Canada anyone here on a visitor visa who carries out any crime and we will prioritize the deportation of those who carry out hate crimes and violence on our streets.”

For permanent residents or citizens who commit such crimes, “they will go to jail and on top of that, there will be massive crippling financial penalties for hate-based vandalism. I can assure you that there will be penalties that are so massive that there will never be again some punk thinking even once about throwing a Molotov cocktail into a Jewish business or firing a gun at a Jewish school. They will pay a severe price for that. My message to the Jewish community — change is coming and that change will mean you will feel safe, you will feel respected and you will feel at home again in Canada.” n