Critics Ridicule Spanking Bill

Critics on the Commons justice committee yesterday ridiculed a New Democrat bill to regulate parents’ discipline of children in the home. Conservative MP Frank Caputo (Kamloops-Thompson, B.C.), a father of three and former Crown prosecutor, questioned whether a tap on the wrist would be criminalized: “When should a parent be subject to criminal law?”

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