Press Release Department: Federal - Public Safety Canada

President of the Queen’s Privy Council and Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair (Scarborough-Southwest, Ont.), Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities Dominic LeBlanc (Beauséjour, N.B.), Treasury Board President Mona Fortier (Ottawa-Vanier, Ont.), Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino (Eglinton-Lawrence, Ont.) and Transport Minister Omar Alghabra (Mississauga Centre, Ont.) issued the following statement on the situation in … Read more

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino (Eglinton-Lawrence, Ont.) announced new support for organizations that assist in obtaining suspensions. This call for applications for a new contribution stream within the Grants and Contributions Program to National Voluntary Organizations involves federal funding of $18 million over the next four years, which will go to organizations active in corrections, conditional release … Read more

President of the Queen’s Privy Council and Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair (Scarborough-Southwest, Ont.) and Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault (Laurier-Sainte-Marie, Que.) issued a statement: “We thank the Council of Canadian Academies and the Expert Panel on Disaster Resilience in a Changing Climate for their report, Building a Resilient Canada. This report highlights the … Read more

President of the Queen’s Privy Council and Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair (Scarborough-Southwest, Ont.) confirmed that the Government of Canada has approved a Request for Federal Assistance from the Province of Nova Scotia to help support their COVID-19 immunization program. To help address the immediate and significant challenges the Nova Scotia health care system is currently … Read more

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino (Eglinton-Lawrence, Ont.) announced that the Government will make record suspensions (formerly known as “pardons”) more affordable by significantly reducing the application fee. Starting January 1, 2022, the cost of applying for a record suspension will be $50, reduced from the current cost of $657.77. The full release is available online. Contact: Craig.macbride@ps-sp.gc.ca.

Dec. 3 marked the conclusion of a weeklong virtual conference which brought together more than 850 investigators, prosecutors and other experts from across Canada to discuss anti-money laundering enforcement efforts. Organized by the Financial Crimes Coordination Centre, it was the first large scale conference of anti-money laundering professionals in this country. The full release is available online. … Read more

President of the Queen’s Privy Council and Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair (Scarborough-Southwest, Ont.) confirmed that the Government of Canada has approved a Request for Federal Assistance from the Province of British Columbia to help with their response to extreme flooding in the province. In recognition of the significant, immediate challenges in the southwest and central … Read more

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino (Eglinton-Lawrence, Ont.) invited interested organizations to apply for funding under the Community Resilience Fund, which  has approximately $6.5 million in funding available for organizations to support innovative programming and research initiatives to address radicalization to violence in Canada. The CRF Call for Applications is open from Nov.16, 2021-Jan. 11, 2022. The full release is available online. Call 613-407-8515.

President of the Queen’s Privy Council and Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair (Scarborough-Southwest, Ont.) confirmed that the Government of Canada has approved a Request for Federal Assistance from the Province of Ontario to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic in remote Northern Ontario communities, including remote First Nations fly-in communities. The Government of Canada will provide … Read more

The Government of Canada announced that it provided $5.3 million to the Northwest Territories through the Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements Program to support response and recovery costs. This payment was the final installment of $20.3 million of assistance. An interim payment of $15 million was issued in February 2020. The full release is available online. Call 613-407-8515.