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B.C. MP’s ‘serial killer pickup hockey’, Bernado story sparks political firestorm

Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP’s prison account includes visit to the cell of notorious killer
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Conservative MP for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo Frank Caputo rises during Question Period, Tuesday, February 7, 2023 in Ottawa. Canada’s prison service says there is no working hockey rink at the institution a Conservative MP is warning allows its most notorious inmates to play “taxpayer funded serial killer pick-up hockey.” THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Canada’s prison service says there has been no functioning ice hockey rink for the past two winters at an institution where a Conservative MP says notorious inmates can play “taxpayer-funded serial killer pickup hockey.”

Frank Caputo toured the La Macaza Institution last month, and says that after visiting Paul Bernardo’s own cell, he even came “face-to-face” with the serial rapist and convicted murderer.

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