Yes

Committing a crime is a choice. How can we trust a leader of a country to take care of it's people if they make choices that lead to crimes?

So you want to stop illegal immigrants from coming into our country, but you're willing to vote one into office?

If the politician was unable to set standards and morals for their own life, how are they going to determine the standards and morals for our entire country?

if you have committed a crime, you do not know how to make this country better because you have already made it worse by committing a crime.

One counterargument to the "Yes" position on criminal politicians, which typically advocates for stringent penalties and accountability for elected officials convicted of crimes, could be:

While holding politicians accountable for criminal behavior is important, adopting overly punitive measures risks undermining democratic principles and the rule of law. It's crucial to ensure that justice is served impartially and that individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Implementing blanket measures targeting criminal politicians could lead to politicization of the justice…  Read more system and potentially infringe on individuals' rights to fair trial and due process. Instead, maintaining independent and transparent judicial processes to address allegations of wrongdoing ensures accountability while upholding fundamental principles of democracy and justice.

Criminals with indelible offence should never run to be a politicians unless they commited a crime when they were teens

It comes down to the Philosophy 101 question, would you steal bread to feed your starving family? In the case of politicians, the vast majority come from money, therefore it depends on the morality of the crime, the reasons behind the actions and the severity of those actions.

The Canadian parliament should be held at a high standard and allowing criminals to make decisions and run for a role in parliament is embarrassing for the country as they chose to do something against the law and got caught and are being punished they shouldn’t then be given a position of power in the country they betrayed.

Leaders in the military can't have criminal records and are held to very high standards. Why would we let someone run the country and expect less from them. We need leaders with integrity and honesty and I feel that someone with a criminal records would not have these qualities.

That people can change, and just because they made a mistake in the past dosent mean that they arent better people now