Piché: Premier's support for new Ottawa jail costly, ineffective

During the 2018 provincial election campaign, then-Progressive Conservative candidate for premier Doug Ford promised to “find efficiencies” to reduce the cost of government in Ontario. When asked how, he answered, “We’re going to find four cents on the dollar.”
In a province where approximately seven out of 10 prisoners are legally innocent and awaiting their day in court, more often than not as a result of being charged with non-violent offences, even greater savin