Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair (Scarborough-Southwest, Ont.) announced almost $350,000 over three years to the YWCA Moncton for their Brave YW project. This funding is made available under the Contribution Program to Combat Serious and Organized Crime. The full release is available online. Call 613-991-0657.
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair (Scarborough-Southwest, Ont.) participated in a virtual roundtable with organizations that support victims of intimate-partner violence and gender-based violence from the Kitchener-Waterloo region. During their discussion, Blair highlighted the work carried out in supporting women and other individuals at risk, and the Government’s proposed firearms legislation is designed to … Read more
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair (Scarborough-Southwest, Ont.) announced almost $55,000 to Saint Mary’s University for their Community Hackathon: Addressing Human Trafficking in Atlantic Canada project. This funding is made available under the Contribution Program to Combat Serious and Organized Crime. The full release is available online. Call 613-991-0657.
The Government has introduced new firearms legislation to keep Canadians safe and guns out of the hands of dangerous people. This legislation builds on previous measures to keep guns out of our communities, including prohibiting assault-style firearms and providing $327.6 million through the Initiative To Take Action Against Gun and Gang Violence to support provincial, territorial and community-level … Read more
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair (Scarborough-Southwest, Ont.) announced over $1.2 million in federal funding over two years to increase the investigative capacity of Alberta’s local Internet Child Exploitation Units. The Calgary and Edmonton police services will use this funding to bolster their capacity to prevent online child sexual exploitation as well as identify and … Read more
The Government of Canada has placed 13 new groups on the Criminal Code list of terrorist entities, including four ideologically motivated violent extremist groups: Atomwaffen Division, the Base, the Proud Boys and Russian Imperial Movement. In addition, Canada has also listed: Three Al Qaida affiliates: Jama’at Nusrat Al-Islam Wal-Muslimin, Front de Libération du Macina, and Ansar Dine … Read more
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair (Scarborough-Southwest, Ont.) issued the following statement on the suspension of sale of decommissioned RCMP vehicles: “Trust in our public institutions is vital. The RCMP has a resale process for vehicles it no longer needs that ensures they cannot easily be misused for criminal purposes. We are suspending the sale … Read more
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair (Scarborough-Southwest, Ont.), Minister of Public Services and Procurement Anita Anand (Oakville, Ont.) and Health Minister Patty Hajdu (Thunder Bay-Superior North, Ont.) confirmed that the Government of Canada will deploy two federal Mobile Health Units to Ontario, in response to a provincial request for assistance. The two MHUs are scheduled to be … Read more
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair (Scarborough-Southwest, Ont.) issued the following statement: “On January 22, 2020, Marylène Levesque was killed in Sainte-Foy, Québec, by an offender on day parole. As we near one year since that tragic event, our thoughts are with her family, friends and community. This was a terrible tragedy that … Read more
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair (Scarborough-Southwest, Ont.) announced funding of up to $1.5 million to the Assembly of First Nations. The funding is intended to support the AFN to engage in initial dialogue and launch discussions recognizing the AFN as an important partner in First Nations policing reforms, and to lay the groundwork … Read more
