Violence and criminal gangs are on the rise, Sudbury MP Viviane Lapointe said today, and the federal Building Safer Communities Fund aims to help communities tackle the problem
Greater Sudbury will be receiving $2 million in funding for the prevention of gun violence, this according to a federal funding announcement made at the YMCA of Northeastern Ontario in downtown Sudbury on Aug. 2.
Lapointe spoke of rising violence in Sudbury, as well as in North Bay and on Manitoulin Island, specifically M’Chigeeng, where recent gun violence has been an issue for the community. Lapointe said that no single initiative or measure holds the solution to gun violence and to address the challenge of this scale, “we need to fight it on a number of fronts at the national, provincial and community levels and address crime as a continuum, one that begins by addressing underlying causes and stopping violence before it even starts.”
“The Anishinaabe Aski police service, the largest First Nations police force in Canada, recently reported an exponential increase in gang members from bigger cities trafficking drugs in the 35 communities they patrol.”
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