Tories go to foreign policy to appease base: Experts

Published May 12, 2010

Alberta-born Ronald Smith has been on death row in Montana since 1983 for murdering two people. For years he had been working with Canadian authorities in an effort to get the sentence commuted to life in prison.

However, in October 2007, the Conservative government reversed a long-standing policy of automatically requesting clemency for Canadian citizens sentenced to the death penalty in democratic...