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Canada's prison investigator, the federal victims' ombudsperson and friends of one of Paul Bernardo's victims are all calling on the federal government to do more to ensure crime victims have the same rights as offenders in the wake of the serial killer and rapist's controversial prison transfer.

Tim Danson, the lawyer representing the families of Paul Bernardo’s murder victims, will speak to MPs Wednesday about the transfer of inmates.

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Paul Bernardo has been serving a life sentence for the kidnappings, tortures and murders of teenagers Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy in the early 1990s.

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Families of serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo's victims are trying to convince the Supreme Court of Canada to give them access to his records in advance of future parole hearings.

The stone-faced bureaucracy that is Canadas legal system has been fanatically determined for decades to protect the privacy rights of killers and other arch-criminals.

A spokesman for the correctional service says it does not tell offenders not to speak to the media, but listed a general process it follows for considering interview requests

OTTAWA — Newly released documents show that Correctional Service Canada stopped Paul Bernardo from having his lawyer make a statement to the media as controversy swirled around the notorious killer's transfer to a medium-security prison.