🇨🇦 Forty-one years stolen, then the state pays itself off in secret

Claude Paquin lost 18 years in prison, then another 23 under parole conditions, because Quebec authorities built a double-murder case on a police informant and allegedly fabricated or altered physical evidence. Now Montreal and Quebec have reached a multimillion-dollar settlement, complete with a confidentiality clause, as reported. Convenient. When the state ruins a man for 41 years, the public gets the bill and the bureaucrats get silence.

This is the real face of the managerial regime: endless sermons about justice, equity and democratic values from the same machine that can bury an innocent man until he is 81 before admitting a miscarriage of justice likely occurred. No names, no real accountability, no public reckoning for police, Crown offices, or the political class overseeing the system. Just a closed-door payout funded by taxpayers. Canada’s institutions love transparency right up until transparency might touch the institution itself.

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