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So, this is awkward. Remember when the Liberals were aghast at opposition demands that Terri-Lynne McClintic be returned to prison from the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge In Maple Creek, Sask.? Remember when Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale went on CTV News and defended Correctional Service Canada’s expertise, insisting “prison management officials have determined this is the best way to rectify (McClintic’s) bad practices in the past, but also to keep the public safe”?

Remember when CSC Commissioner Anne Kelly defended her agency’s “rigorous case management process” and proclaimed herself “comfortable with the decision”?

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Remember when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau scampered out of the House of Commons before a vote on a motion demanding McClintic be returned to prison to hold an impromptu scrum, during which he gleefully accused the Conservatives of “practising ambulance-chasing politics” and exploiting “terrible tragedies for political gain”?

Well, so, here’s the thing. Upon further review by the CSC, it turns out it’s actually not appropriate for a woman who helped arrange the rape of an eight-year-old girl, then claw-hammered the girl to death, then in prison savagely assaulted an inmate and wrote to a friend that she wished she could have done more damage, to be housed in an Indigenous healing lodge that can contain children living with their mothers and where the “guards” don’t even try to stop people from escaping.

Maybe not ever. Certainly not just nine years into a life sentence with a mandatory minimum of 25 years without parole.

Repeat: Not appropriate. On Thursday we learned McClintic was in Edmonton, back in the clink. Suddenly there are new, tougher and retroactive admissions rules for admission healing lodges.

And on Friday, Joely Lambourn, who was serving 30 months for mowing down a cyclist while driving with a suspended licence, escaped from Okimaw Ohci.