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Following reports that a notorious accused child rapist requested transfer to a women’s detention centre, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre renewed his call to “ban biological men from women’s prisons.”

“This vile male monster charged with violently sexually assaulting a 3 year old girl wants to be transferred to a women’s prison. Lock him up,” Poilievre wrote in a Tuesday social media post.

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On Aug. 31, Welland, Ont., man Daniel Senecal was arrested and charged for allegedly breaking into a home and sexually assaulting a toddler to the point of hospi

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