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Mr. Chair, it is a balancing act. I can assure the member that the rights of victims are crucial for us.
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Mr. Chair, it is a border bill, not a bail bill.
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Mr. Chair, it is $20 million for the first phase of the business buyback. More will be allocated and is allocated towards the individual gun owners.
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Mr. Chair, we look forward to working toward enhancing bail.
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Mr. Chair, I do not have time to answer this question in a robust way, but I do look forward to having a conversation on this with the member.
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Mr. Chair, in the three weeks since I was appointed, no.
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Mr. Chair, former minister Lametti is an outstanding Canadian of true integrity. He is an academic, and his stature is beyond reproach in this Parliament.
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Madam Chair, I did highlight some of this in my earlier speech. The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police is in support, as are the Canadian Police Association, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection and Leah West in The Globe and Mail, someone who writes a fair bit on national security. There are many more Canadians, organizations and parliamentarians who are supporting the bill.
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Madam Chair, there are 10,000 frontline officers, both CBSA and RCMP, who are deployed to secure our border.
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Mr. Chair, Bill C-48 was a result of consultations and engagements we had with the provinces and territories. We will continue to do those engagements and bring forward the appropriate—
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Mr. Chair, on April 28, Canadians gave this government a mandate to do many things, including addressing issues around the criminal justice system, as well as securing the border.
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Mr. Chair, the issues identified by my friend opposite relate to those who are incarcerated. It is essential that those who are incarcerated be reformed and have the skills they need to cope in society if and when they are released.
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Mr. Chair, it is essential that we support survivors who are victims of violence and who are impacted by the criminal justice system.
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Mr. Chair, we need to do better on bail. We look forward to bringing forward legislation to that effect.
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Mr. Chair, the investments we are making relate specifically to the program of buyback, and that is not going directly to anything other than the buyback program.
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Mr. Chair, with an investment of $1.3 billion we are making toward the border, we will have 1,000 CBSA and 1,000 new RCMP officers to secure the border.
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Mr. Chair, we look forward to bringing changes to the bail program, or bail reform. Of course, this is something that involves not just the federal government but also the provincial governments and municipalities as well.
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Mr. Chair, as I have indicated earlier, this is not a bail reform bill. It is a border bill.
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Mr. Chair, no, it is not correct. I did a fair amount of criminal work as well.
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Mr. Chair, this is not about law-abiding gun owners.
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Mr. Chair, there have been a number of seizures of firearms in different operations. There was Operation Blizzard, which was completed recently. There was an earlier seizure of a number of firearms. I do not have the exact number, but in terms of—
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Mr. Chair, Bill C-21 is meant to get serious, dangerous weapons off our streets.
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Mr. Chair, we will be able to provide that information to my colleague.
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Mr. Chair, the bill is not looking specifically at scanning. It is a much broader bill—
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Mr. Chair, that was obviously taken out of context, but we will be working on bail reform. We look forward to working with the opposition on it.
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Mr. Chair, we will be able to provide those operational details to the member in short order.
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Mr. Chair, [Technical difficulty—Editor].
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Mr. Chair, I cannot speak for former minister Virani, but I can say that the police chief of the city of Toronto has indicated that auto thefts are down by 39%, home invasions by 42%, homicides by 67% and shootings by 46%. I confirmed with him—
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Mr. Chair, for operational reasons, I probably should not be answering that question.
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Mr. Chair, a lot of this is undertaken by the provinces. If we look at the work of CSC, it is done—
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Mr. Chair, I understand this is a program that was administered by the Province of British Columbia.
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Mr. Chair, as Canadians and as governments, we need to do everything in our power to ensure that people are—
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Mr. Chair, in the three weeks since I was appointed, I have been working on a bill, Bill C-2, that would ensure that we continue to fight fentanyl at our borders.
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Mr. Chair, that is factually incorrect. This government decriminalized cannabis and did not go beyond that.
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Mr. Chair, part of the cost goes towards administration and setting up the program, but on the buyback itself it is $20 million that has been spent.
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Mr. Chair, again, I will be able to provide that information to my colleague at a later date.
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No, Mr. Chair. It happened as part of a request by the British Columbia government for a short period of time.
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Madam Chair, we consulted on many elements of this bill over the last year or so, but we look forward to a robust discussion.
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Mr. Chair, I have addressed this issue a number of times. I will reiterate that we will be bringing forward reform to our bail system.
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Mr. Chair, the RCMP recruits from the best and the brightest. It is in the process of recruitment and then training. The officers will be deployed as required, based on operational needs.
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Mr. Chair, in my role as Minister of Public Safety, it is critically important that Canadians are protected, including Jewish Canadians.
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Mr. Chair, we look forward to working with our provincial and territorial counterparts to ensure that there are no hard drugs available within their respective jurisdictions.
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Mr. Chair, this is a question that should be addressed to the Minister of Health.
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Mr. Chair, this is a question that should be posed to the police of jurisdiction in British Columbia.
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Mr. Chair, this is a committee of the whole to address the issues around my portfolio, which is public safety. The issue is relating to health, and I suggest that this question be posed to the health minister.
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Mr. Chair, is the member accusing me of misleading? I do not think he is, but no, I am giving numbers that are accurate.
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