Bank Act  Today we heard the minister agreeing to allowing a criminal, who has been convicted of drug trafficking in this country, to become a refugee. This will allow him to continue his drug trade and continue to feed drugs to our children. Help from the government for our law enforcement agencies, such as the RCMP in B.C., is very slow, and in returning integrity to the accounting practices of the Minister of Finance who has been cooking the books in the country.

Criminal Code  They should not be out on the street leading very desperate lives and causing harm not only to themselves but to the whole community. We have heard two members speak about the impact of drugs and the drug trade. Does the Reform Party recognize that there are victims and to continue with a criminalized approach does not really solve anything? The member also mentioned growing poverty which, I agree, has been a tragedy in the country.

Supply  Canadians right across this country are victims of this problem and it must be dealt with. I mentioned the problem with the drug trade in Vancouver, in particular the problem with Honduran people who come to Canada claiming refugee status which are bogus claims. That they are in our country is a problem in itself. How did they get to our country?

Supply  There is no war on drugs because successive governments have failed to introduce a balanced approach to deal with the issue of illicit drugs. Inspector Barszczewski revealed that the illicit drug trade remains the principal source of revenue for most organized crime groups. The combined annual supply estimates for all drug types has the potential to generate criminal proceeds in excess of $4 billion at the wholesale level and $18 billion at the street level.

Organized Crime  The cost of these activities is in the billions of dollars. The cost to the health of Canadians, particularly young Canadians, of the illicit drug trade is staggering. There is a statement from the government's document on the organized crime impact study which deals with the seizures of illicit drugs and the increase in the use of crack among adolescents, which has gone from 0.5% in 1993, the year when I believe that party took power, to 1.9% in 1995.

Organized Crime  Working with all these partners, we have identified a number of shared priorities, combating drug abuse and the illicit drug trade, addressing high tech crime, fraud and other economic crimes, and reinvesting our national police services for an integrated national public safety network. Organized crime is an issue that spans our nation and transcends our borders.

Extradition Act  The current legislation does not deal with the newer high tech crime and is not flexible enough to accommodate changes arising from the globalization of criminal activity. Indeed we see a lot of that happening today. We know there is drug trade and organized crime taking place globally. It is not as if now things that happen in our community are isolated from the rest of the world. Quite often these crimes originate in another part of the world and come across to our borders.

Foreign Aid  Why will the government not take the money previously earmarked for Jamaica and spend it in British Columbia on the RCMP which is fighting the drug trade and drug abuse? Why not use the money instead of wasting it?

Extradition Act  The present act is not flexible enough to accommodate changes arising from within the globalization of criminal activity such as drug trade, organized and transborder crimes. Organized crime has reached crisis levels in this country. This under a Liberal government comes according to a very reliable source, mainly the police and security officers who are daily forced to deal with this type of activity.

Extradition Act  We feel that Bill C-40 is necessary and beneficial because the current legislation does not deal with things like the newer high tech crimes and is not flexible enough to accommodate changes arising from the globalization of criminal activity, for instance the drug trade, organized and transborder crimes. The increased mobility of individuals makes the need for effective extradition relations with other countries more important than it ever has been in the past.

Criminal Code  I really appreciated the idea of a separate police force or enforcement agency and that their business was strictly only that, not only in the two major centres but in the smaller centres as well, in the smaller ports. He mentioned a concern about the drug trade and our cuts to foreign aid. Would he and his party not also agree that one way of reducing organized crime's efforts to bring in contraband drugs for example, would be for our foreign affairs department, our immigration department, CIDA, et cetera to give third world countries more access to capital?

Conditional Sentencing  Rapists, violent offenders and those who attempt to exploit children and the weak through a profitable drug trade should face jail time. In Grande Prairie, Alberta a judge released a man on a conditional sentence after he fired a .22 calibre sawed-off rifle at his wife but he missed. He received an 18 month conditional sentence to be served in the community.

Dna Identification Act  I hear of drive by shootings in my own little town of Altona. I hear of a murder in Miami because of the drug trade. And I found out in the last couple of weeks that one of my neighbours was gunned down because he was involved as an undercover agent for the RCMP, and there are no clues as to who did it.

Organized Crime  Speaker, lots of consultation, lots of talk, no action. In its annual report on the international drug trade the United States state department singled out Canada as “an easy target for drug related crime and money laundering”. It lists Canada alongside Columbia as a great place to hide illegal cash.

Controlled Drugs And Substances Act  To that end, it administers a narcotics evaluation system and a system of voluntary evaluation of psychotropic substances and monitors international drug trading through a statistical reporting system. Moreover, it monitors the measures taken by governments to control chemical products that can be used in illicit manufacture of drugs, assisting them in preventing their being channelled toward illicit trafficking.