Let them eat bread!

Bread and water. Isn't that what prison inmates used to be fed? Not in Canada. For breakfast they get a hearty meal of bacon and eggs, toast and jam, milk, cereal, juice and coffee all neatly wrapped up in a special bonus of two thousand Canadian dollars for the convicted Muslim who takes offense to being served bacon. Our criminals are better fed than the nation's poverty-stricken children who must wait in soup lines to eat their one meal a day.

Warning! Don't try this if you are a born and bred Caucasian Canadian!

A Muslim inmate has won $2,000 and a partial human rights victory over a Correctional Service of Canada policy not to replace bacon with a halal diet for Islam-worshiping cons.

Duane David, who is serving time in Kingston's Joyceville Institution for an unknown crime, had complained to the Canadian Human Rights Commission that his rights were being violated as the prison failed to offer a halal replacement for bacon served to inmates with breakfast every Wednesday.

The court heard Muslims are forbidden from eating pork for religious reasons.

A Federal Court of Canada hearing was told the breakfast included three pieces of bacon, two eggs, three slices of toast, jam, ketchup, milk, coffee, juice and cereal.

'REQUEST WAS REFUSED'

"Muslim inmates who follow a halal diet (usually) receive all of these items, except the bacon," Madame Justice Eleanor Dawson was told. "Mr. David had requested a substitute for the three pieces of bacon, but the request was refused by the institution."

Court heard that an internal grievance filed by David for a bacon replacement was denied at all levels and then a complaint was filed to the commission, whose investigator ruled the matter had been properly dealt with.

David appealed the investigator's decision to the federal court, who this month ordered the attorney general to pay David $2,000 for damages and that the commissions' decision be set aside as a new hearing is launched into the matter.

During the grievance hearing, Joyceville's chief of food services said his department didn't have the budget to offer a bacon replacement and another official called for the banning of the food from all Ontario jails.

It seems like all a minority has to do in Canada is to scream "Discrimination!" at the top of their lungs, with a side chorus of "My rights are being violated!" and they will be pandered to by a government who is all too willing to accommodate their "cultural uniqueness".

Thanks Unitas, for letting me know how privileged our inmates have become.