premise: If we were to take the costs of colour cable TV, free condoms, free bleach for needles, the right to sue and legal costs involved, the right to vote and the administrative and logistical costs involved, gun registration and the cost of patronage appointees the Liberals have put on the parole board, just those costs alone, would we not be able to spend more money on hiring more officers or more judges without the increased raises to get rid of the backlog in the courts?
hypothesis: This excerpt is written in an unbiased, neutral tone. 
reason: I don't know what taking away basic commodities for struggling members of society has to do with spending on the legal system, but if I had to guess, I think the parallel is made to rally sensationalists who are quick to jump to conclusions in an effort to defame the Liberals, which is definitely not unbiased nor neutral - therefore, my statement is definitely incorrect. I think the system had difficulty because it does not understand how politicians in the human world will toy with the emotions of the general population in an attempt to gain political leverage.