Crooked in Canada

From the very first moment I heard about Brenda Martin’s plea for help from Canadians and the Canadian government to get her out a Mexican prison I had my doubts about the story she was telling. As far as I was concerned her story was as fraudulent as her former employer (I suspect he was her lover too) was, and  I also thought that she was playing Canadians for support and hoping that one day she would be able to cash in on her tale of woe.

In the end the federal government kissed her butt, won her release from the Mexican prison where she said conditions were so bad, almost inhumane, and flew her back home to Canada at taxpayer’s expense, on a chartered jet no less, a flight that reportedly cost Canadian taxpayers $82,000.

If Martin had done her time in Mexico she would have been forced to serve out her full 5-year sentence after she was convicted of money-laundering for her “former” employer, a man who as far as I know, is still in a U.S. prison serving what is left of a ten-year sentence after he was convicted of running a $60-million U.S. internet fraud scheme.

Not to my surprise Brenda Martin is back in the headlines and she isn’t winning me over. Not that she would care what I or anybody else thinks about her.

In an article she published on the social media website Orato titled “I Languished in a Mexican Prison,” Martin states that if the Mexican government were inclined to pardon her for the crime she was found guilty of, she would gladly return to Mexico because she misses the beach. If that’s the way she feels then maybe she and her Canadian and Mexican supporters should lobby the Mexican government as hard as they did the Canadian government to get that pardon, you know threaten a tourism boycott or something like that if they don’t issue her a pardon so that she could return to Mexico. Maybe she should try threatening suicide to get that pardon too.

And if she finds herself short of cash to pay for a one-way ticket back to Mexico, I’m sure there are more than a few thousand Canadian taxpayers who wouldn’t mind picking up the tab for the ticket if she promised to pay it back and to never return to Canada, but only if she has paid the debt she owes Canadian taxpayers for bringing her back to Canada.

Martin also says in her article that during her short stay at Grand Valley she longed to be returned to the Mexican prison where according to her prison guards killed her pet cats, she was beaten and robbed, and she was forced to share a cell with a convicted child murderer and a kidnapper. Apparently her “celebrity status” put her in harms way in Canada.

Yeppers, life in a Mexican prison was so much better for Martin compared to the conditions she had to live under at Grand Valley, don’t you think?

What was it a friend who visited her while she was incarcerated at Puente Grande, one of the toughest prisons in Mexico, that Martin’s Mexican prison conditions had made her mentally unstable, physically exhausted and emotional mess?  Since she is still on parole maybe corrections officials and the National Parole Board of Canada should arrange to send her back to Puente Garde if she thinks life is so much better for her down there than in Canada.  I don’t have a problem with that.

Given the title of her seven page article in Orato, coupled with her claim that eight days into her stay at Grand Valley she longed to be returned to her Mexican prison cell, I would have to say that the woman is still a whack job and that she hasn’t done anything since returning to Canada to get the help she needs to correct that personality flaw.

Martin is currently living with her mother in Trenton, Ontario.

Previous Brenda Martin Articles

Brenda Martin Released On Parole
Brenda Martin Doesn’t Kill Herself, On Her Way Back To Canada
Things Are Looking Up For Her
Verdict Is In, She Gets 5 Years
Day Of Reckoning On Brenda Martin’s Horizon
So She’s A Drug Addict-”boohoo, cry me a river”