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House Hansard - 152

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 2, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 152 - Feb/2/23
Ms. Iqra Khalid
  • Feb/2/23 12:50:30 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I had a conversation with our chief of police and many other chiefs of police across the country with respect to how we are protecting our borders. I know that our government has made hundreds of millions of dollars of investments to ensure we have more restrictions at our borders with respect to how firearms are coming across. I have talked to chiefs of police who tell me exactly how they are brought in. That feedback has been taken in, and our government has made those investments. Again, I really think this is a complex issue. It is something we need to work on within a more fulsome context. I would have hoped that the opposition, when it was in power, would have invested more, but according to my readings, it had actually cut funding to our borders by about a third by the time it was done with its governance.
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Context: House Hansard - 152 - Feb/2/23
Mrs. Carol Hughes (Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing, NDP)
  • Feb/2/23 2:14:05 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we all have a shared commitment to public safety, but when it comes to indigenous policing, services are chronically underfunded. Indigenous police forces such as those within my riding, the UCCM Anishnaabe Police, Wikwemikong Tribal Police Service, Anishinabek Police Service and the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service, do great work in serving first nations communities. However, there is an urgent need to ensure that negotiations to renew agreements include a healthy increase to core funding. Often, there are only two officers working each shift, and when officers respond to a call in one community they are consistently unable to respond to calls from other first nations. Lately, there has been an increase in homicide, gun, drug and human trafficking-related crimes. First nations police services need more funding to hire more officers and dedicated funding for crime units to better respond to public safety issues so that no community is left unprotected. Today, I ask all parliamentarians to call for increases to core funding and the renewal of first nations policing agreements.
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