This is an interesting article about life after conviction:
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/touch/story.html?id=10103016
I found this part specifically of note - If DG is found guilty he may be sentenced to consecutive sentences and harsher parole restrictions:
Legislation passed in recent years is changing the way life sentences are administered in Canada, meaning more offenders will serve longer terms before being eligible for parole. The Protecting Canadians by Ending Sentence Discounts for Multiple Murders Act, which came into effect in 2011, means judges can now impose parole ineligibility periods of up to 75 years in cases of multiple homicide. (In the past, multiple life sentences were served concurrently, leading some to complain about “discounts” for multiple murderers like Ennis.)
The first person sentenced under the new law was Alberta’s Travis Baumgartner, who was given life in prison with no chance of parole for 40 years for the June 2012 murders of three colleagues with an armoured car company, and the attempted murder of another, in Edmonton.
Baumgartner will be eligible for parole in 2052, when he is 62 years old. During sentencing, Associate Chief Justice John Rooke said he believed the maximum 75-year parole ineligibility should be reserved for the most heinous offenders, such as serial killers Clifford Olson or Robert Pickton. He said Baumgartner’s case called for a sentence that still holds out some hope of freedom — in part to deter him from further crimes in prison.
Other legislation, entitled the Serious Time for the Most Serious Crime Act, eliminates the “faint-hope clause,” which once allowed first-degree lifers a chance to apply for parole before their mandatory 25-year eligibility period.
Meanwhile, a private member’s bill called the Respecting Families of Murdered and Brutalized Persons Act seeks to increase to 40 years the parole eligibility for murders involving abduction or sexual offences. It is currently in second reading, and if passed, could become law by the spring of 2015.
