CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, August 31, 2007
EDMONTON (CNS) -- A Conservative MP is questioning his own government on
behalf a Canadian languishing in a rat-infested Cuban jail.
MP James Rajotte has agreed to find out why Public Safety Minister
Stockwell Day refused a prison transfer for Perry King of Edmonton, who
has served almost five years of a 15-year sentence for having sex with
two teenaged girls, aged 15 and 16.
On Aug. 9, King reapplied to be transferred to Canada under the
International Transfer of Offenders Act. In June, Day rejected an
earlier request, made last fall, naming King a threat to national security.
"The offender was convicted of sexual offences involving children," Day
said in a letter to King. "Based on the nature of these offences there
is concern the offender's return to Canada would constitute a threat to
the security of Canada."
Rajotte said he wants to know why Day has taken that position, although
he stopped short of saying he disagreed with Day.
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