Only in Canada. What an incredible waste of tax dollars it's going to be to house these stupid jokers for 12 years when there are much, much more dangerous criminals out there on the streets. There are rapists and possibly murderers over here who get way less than 12 years. The Canadian justice system doesn't have it's priorities in order. Harrassment (whether it towards racial minorities, LGBTs, people with mental or physical disabilities or anyone really) is way, way below rape and murder in the "menace to society" scale in my opinion. The punishment for petty crimes like these should be light.
Even if they get reduced down to 4-5 years for good behaviour, that is an insanely huge waste of taxpayer money. Even assault is worse than harrassment and I doubt I'd be in jail very long if I punched out some person that got on my nerves.
And don't get me started on drug laws. Those are a fucking joke. Illicit drugs should be legalized. Throwing junkies in jail isn't going to turn them into productive model citizens. In Canada, they really over-do it with hate crimes whereas in America, they really over-do it with drug crimes.
