November 24, 2004
Diane
Diotte, Clerk
Standing
Committee on Justice and Human Rights
Dear
Ms. Diotte:
Re:
NOTICE OF MOTIONS
I wish
to give the Committee notice of the following motions:
MOTION No
1
That Vote 20 for the Department of the Solicitor General (Public Safety
and Emergency Preparedness) for the Canadian Firearms Centre in the amount of
$82,080,000 be reduced by $20,000,000.
Que le crédit 20 pour le ministère du Solliciteur général (Sécurité publique et Protection civile) destiné au Centre canadien des armes à feu et d'un montant de 82 080 000 $ soit réduit de 20 000 000 $.
MOTION No
2
Whereas the Standing Committee on Justice and Human has
approved that Vote 20 for the Department of the Solicitor General
(Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) for the Canadian Firearms Centre in
the amount of $82,080,000 be reduced by $20,000,000, the Committee recommends
to the House that the Government should redirect these funds to Vote 55 for
the RCMP to use for front-line policing priorities.
Tandis
que le Comité permanent de la justice et des droits de la
personne a approuvé que ce crédit 20 d'un montant de 82 080 000 $
pour le ministère du Solliciteur général (Sécurité publique et Protection
civile) et destiné au Centre canadien des armes à feu soit
réduit de 20 000 000 $, le Comité recommande
à la Chambre que le gouvernement reverse ces fonds au crédit 55 destiné
à la GRC pour qu'elle utilise ces fonds dans le cadre de
ses priorités en matière d'effectifs policiers de première ligne.
Sincerely,
[Original
signed by]
Garry
Breitkreuz, MP
Yorkton-Melville
EXAMPLES
OF FRONT-LINE
POLICING
PRIORITIES IN NEED OF FUNDING
By
Garry Breitkreuz, MP – November 24, 2004
·
Funding to
improve the number and effectiveness of the Integrated Border Enforcement Teams
that the Minister told the Justice Committee are, “the future
of public safety and security”.
She requested the Committee:
[QUOTE] “If you people would make a submission on my behalf to the
Minister of Finance that we need more resources for our existing IBETs, and more
IBETs, I would support it wholeheartedly.”
This will do more for stopping the smuggling of guns into Canada than a
gun registry ever could.
·
Funding for the
RCMP Forensic Laboratories to clear up the DNA case backlogs.
RCMP sources have calculated there may be as many as 340 repeat offenders
on the loose because of the inability of the labs to process the backlog of
1,733 DNA cases.
·
Funding to help
the RCMP better fight organized crime, biker gangs and street gangs.
·
Funding for
victims of crime to attend parole hearings of their attackers.
· Funding to replace the 25 RCMP officers cut from the Manitoba Highway Patrol.
·
Funding to fill
the RCMP vacancies in detachments and provinces across Canada (i.e. 150 in
Alberta alone).
·
Funding to
allow the RCMP to suspend its resource redeployment program until the Justice
Committee hears from the mayors and the municipal wardens of regional county
municipalities affected by the closing of an RCMP detachment as proposed by
Richard Marceau, MP.
·
Funding to
track down the 30,000 people in this country who are under removal order
and have overstayed their visas.
·
Funding to help
track down and arrest the 199,553 wanted on Canada-wide arrest warrants and the
111,512 wanted on Province-wide arrest warrants.
·
Funding to help
police track down the 176,091 convicted criminals that have been prohibited from
owning firearms by the courts and check to see if they have acquired firearms
illegally.
·
Funding to help
police enforce the 37,015 (Canada-wide) and 2,241 (Province-wide) persons
subject to Restraining Orders, Alternate Measures; Conditional Sentence;
Conditional Discharge; Conditional Supervision (Young Offender); Open Custody
(Young Offender); Probation; Recognizance (Peace Bonds); and, Suspended
Sentence.
JANUARY 24, 2004 - TORONTO POLICE
CHIEF JULIAN FANTINO: Since the Guns and Gangs Task Force began conducting
compliance checks on residents freed on bail after being charged in a
gun-related crime, "almost 50% were breaching their conditions," he
said. During such "house calls" over the last four months, 119 of the
239 accused criminals checked were re-arrested for failing to live up to
pre-trial release orders.