Police services across the country must change the way they operate or risk drastic cuts, Canada’s public safety minister says.
Speaking
at the start of a national summit on the economics of policing, Vic
Toews said the current system is financially unsustainable and needs to
be reformed.
“I’ll be blunt. Police services face two options:
they can do nothing and eventually be forced to cut drastically, as we
have seen in some countries,” Mr. Toews said. “Or they can be proactive,
get ahead of the curve and have greater flexibility in designing and
implementing both incremental and meaningful structural reforms.”
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Couldn't they just cut health care, and education budgets and save the police. Tom
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Double-bunking in crowded prison cells is not a problem for Toews
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says he has no problem with the number of federal inmates sharing cells built for one.
And
even as he reiterated his commitment to building 2,700 new cells in
existing prison facilities, he said those additional units aren’t meant
to alleviate the pressures caused by double-bunking – because there’s no
need.
“We won’t make any changes on the double-bunking policy.
Double-bunking is appropriate. All Western democracies use
double-bunking, dual accommodation, in appropriate cells,” he told The
Globe and Mail in an interview. “And we will continue to do that.”
Mr.
Toews used a Winnipeg press conference Wednesday to underscore that the
increase in inmate population isn’t nearly as high as Corrections
Canada projected. The Tackling Violence Crime and Truth in Sentencing
acts were expected to result in 3,600 more inmates into the penal system
by March of 2013; increases so far are closer to one-third that.
How the Toews-sponsored Internet surveillance bill quietly died
The Internet surveillance legislation sponsored by Public Safety
Minister Vic Toews has disappeared down a dark legislative hole. For all
intents and purposes, the bill is dead.
If the Harper government still wants to pass a law that would make it easier for police to track people who use the web to commit crimes, it will have to start from scratch.
That new bill, if there is one, will probably be shepherded by a different minister. That’s how much damage this botched legislation inflicted on the government and on Mr. Toews.
Bill C-30, also known as the lawful access legislation, would allow police to compel Internet service providers to cough up identifying information about anyone using the Internet.
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If the Harper government still wants to pass a law that would make it easier for police to track people who use the web to commit crimes, it will have to start from scratch.
That new bill, if there is one, will probably be shepherded by a different minister. That’s how much damage this botched legislation inflicted on the government and on Mr. Toews.
Bill C-30, also known as the lawful access legislation, would allow police to compel Internet service providers to cough up identifying information about anyone using the Internet.
Read on...
Facing a backlash, Ottawa moves to retool cybercrime bill
The Harper government has blinked in the face of a backlash over legislation that would give authorities new powers to police the Web, saying it’s now prepared to accept a broad range of changes to a bill criticized as a major intrusion into Canadians’ privacy.
The government’s new conciliatory tone comes only two days after Public Safety Minister Vic Toews beat back criticism of the legislation by declaring that critics either stood with the Conservatives “or with the child pornographers.”
The climb-down came the same day that some Conservative MPs, in a rare display of candour, went public with their concerns over Bill C-30, which the Harper government has named the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act.
“I think it’s too intrusive as it currently stands and does need to be looked at,” said New Brunswick Tory MP John Williamson, one of several MPs to talk to reporters. “There’s a lot of concern, I think, across the country as well.”
Do you trust them to make this right? Tom
'With us or with the child pornographers' doesn't cut it, Mr. Toews
What you think of the Conservatives’ new bill to expand police surveillance of the web may depend on what you think of the long-gun registry and the long-form census.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews will argue that the new legislation, to be introduced Tuesday afternoon, will grant the government access to nothing more than the Internet equivalent of a telephone book, which police need to help track criminals and terrorists.
Mr. Toews takes a dim view of anyone who would question the need for that access. In the Commons, Monday, he said people “can either stand with us or with the child pornographers.”
Privacy commissioners in Ottawa and the provinces will not like being called such vile names. They have warned that the Conservatives are violating privacy rights by demanding the authority to collect IP addresses, email addresses, mobile phone numbers and other identifying information on anyone who interests them without a warrant.
Just listening to right-wing talk radio in Kitchener (570 News) and every caller is against the government on this issue. Tom
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