Can he be rehabilitated?
“Of course. I don’t think he’s the only kid in the world who was raised by nutty parents. He probably will do well with some shrinkage. Just like most humans.” Become a good hockey-playing, mortgage-paying, Tims-drinking Canuck? “I didn’t say that. Yes, unless he’s a psychopath, there’s every reason to think he might be rehabilitated to the state where he’s a functional person. He may be a killer, but there are killers walking around on the streets today. They did their time. This guy’s already done eight years, and he’s a child. That’s more than a third of his life. Paul Bernardo’s wife, Karla Homolka, she was involved in the raping and killing of two women and the raping and [death] of her sister and she got out of jail. And she was an adult when she did those things.” Are you ashamed the government didn’t go to bat for him as a Canadian citizen? “Yes. The government of Canada should behave as if he were one of their kids. And they didn’t.” Omar Khadr was sentenced to 40 years for cr
