🇨🇦 He committed a violent home invasion. Now, he's running for town council

Paul Hanlon — convicted of assault with a weapon, a masked home invasion with baseball bats, trying to sell drugs to an undercover cop, and multiple firearms offenses — is now running for council in the same Newfoundland town where he terrorized residents. He served just over two years of a seven-year sentence thanks to enhanced credit for time on remand, and now wants voters to give him a chance because he's paid his debt to society. His slogan: I get it done.

This is what happens when a justice system prioritizes rehabilitation theater over public safety and when legislation is so permissive that violent felons face zero barriers to seeking power over the very communities they victimized. Hanlon has another court date six days after the election for failing to comply with release conditions. The entire council was dismissed in December for dysfunction, and four of those clowns are also running again. Rural Newfoundland deserves better than this farce.

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