An Open Letter to Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino
https://cssa-cila.org/an-open-letter-to-public-safety-minister-marco-mendicino/
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Dear Minister Mendicino:
Congratulations on your appointment as Minister of Public Safety. As a family man with a lovely wife and two daughters, you understand the value of keeping your loved ones safe from criminal violence.
Your background as a federal prosecutor with ten years experience bringing drug dealers, gang members and terrorism suspects to justice will – we trust – inform your decisions on how best to handle dangerous offenders and the illegal weapons they smuggle into our country.
We also are confident you will address an area of law abandoned by your predecessor – our broken Firearm Prohibition Order system.
Statistics Canada data shows the number of offenders who are arrested and charged for violating existing Firearm Prohibition Orders continues to rise every year.
Since 2015, the number of offenders charged with violating these court orders has almost doubled – from 943 in 2015 to 1,759 in 2020, the latest year for which statistics are available.
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