Oh, Canada!

Something most people are unaware of concerning our neighbor to the north. Their justice system is even worse than ours:

• A Canadian court has ruled that an immigrant who beheaded a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus and then ate his eyeballs is not criminally responsible for his actions because he has a “mental disorder.” The decision, which follows a series of spectacularly lenient judicial rulings in Canada in recent years, has outraged ordinary Canadians, who say that left-wing judges increasingly are sacrificing justice and common sense on the altar of bleeding-heart political correctness.
  
  The high-profile murder case involves 41-year-old Vincent Weiguang Li, a man from China who immigrated to Canada in 2001. After more than half a decade of generous support (bilingual education, free housing, health care, and affirmative action) from the Canadian government to help him get settled into his new country, Li ended up divorced and unemployed.

Gee, "...bilingual education, free housing, health care, and affirmative action..." Does this sound like any place we might know?

In any case, this has opened up a huge debate in Canada. And what is driving a large portion of the discussion? Chicago's very own Chalkie!

• As Canadians engage in a national debate over what to do about killers like Li, violent crime is on the rise all across the country. This could spell big trouble for the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, which are set for February 2010. Vancouver is currently experiencing and unprecedented wave of gang-related murders, which has officials worried that tourists will stay away.

This sounds more and more familiar. We just can't place our fingers on it.

Additionally, we're now wondering if Chalkie is Canadian.