“The safety and security of Canadians is our government’s top priority,” says Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino.
B.C. will get more than $54 million in federal funding to help tackle an expanding gang and gun violence problem, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino announced Monday.
From 2018 to 2023, B.C. was allotted $30,530,488 under the program — so would be seeing a substantial increase. Just last month, B.C.’s anti-gang Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit announced that the 10-year-old Lower Mainland gang conflict is now provincewide with gangs once centred in Metro Vancouver moving around the province to expand their drug lines, meaning the violence has spread as well.
The conflict was at one time distinct from an older war between the Red Scorpions and the United Nations gang. But now the dispute is murkier with younger gangsters regularly switching allegiances and some of the bad blood from the original conflict still in play.“The best way to keep people safe is to stop crime and violence before it starts,” he said.
In fact, Bill C-21 faced criticism from hunters and other gun owners for several proposed amendments to the bill defining assault-style rifles that the government later withdrew.
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