The Ontario government wants all provinces across Canada to impose severe restrictions on schoolgirl killer Karla Homolka once she's released from prison this summer, Attorney General Michael Bryant said Monday.
Bryant said his province will first ask a Quebec provincial court judge for an order imposing "the strictest conditions possible" on Homolka, set to be released July 5.
"The recognizance, if ordered will contain various conditions that are designed to help prevent the commission of another offence," Bryant said.
The province will seek the order using Sec. 810 of the Criminal Code, which allows the courts to impose curfews and other methods to curtail social interactions where there are reasonable grounds to fear a person will commit a criminal offence.
Bryant said he would then try to get a similar court order in every province to restrict Homolka's movements wherever she moves in Canada after getting out of prison.
In a decision made public last December, the parole board noted that while Homolka has made some progress toward rehabilitation, there are still concerns that justify keeping her in prison.
Homolka was convicted of manslaughter and handed a 12-year sentence in 1993 for the brutal murders of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French after testifying against her husband, Paul Bernardo.
On July 5, Homolka will be released from the Joliette Institution in Quebec having served her full sentence.
There's speculation that Homolka will reside in Quebec, given she learned to speak French while in prison.
Tim Danson, the lawyer for the French and Mahaffy families, has also vowed to bring Homolka before the courts if provincial officials fail to do so.
Homolka's 12-year sentence also reflected her involvement in the Christmas Eve 1990 drug-rape death of her sister Tammy, 15, at her family's bungalow in St. Catharines, Ont.
