Criminal Code  . It is going to require a whole host of measures working together. At the public safety committee, our first study in this Parliament was on gun and gang violence, and witness after witness was correlating the rise in gun crime with the drug trade. The government, just a few short weeks

Criminal Code   by organized crime in the illegal drug trade. I believe my hon. colleague would agree it is important that we disentangle those who find themselves in front of the criminal law by virtue of substance abuse and mental health issues through substance use from those other individuals who

Criminal Code   a study on gun control, illicit arms trafficking and the increasing numbers of gun crimes committed by members of street gangs. It is a very important study, and we learned that there is a very close tie between the drug trade and gun violence. In that study, we were seeking to find

Criminal Code   mescaline, LSD and others. What exactly is being done right now by the government to crack down on the drug trade? Why is the government not tackling the massive issue of supply in Canada? According to Criminal Intelligence Service Canada, which has strategically allocated resources

Justice  Mr. Speaker, Surrey, B.C., has seen a troubling spike in gun violence, with 28 reports of shots fired and three confirmed deadly shootings by April of this year. Fatal gun violence by gangs linked to the drug trade continues to rise in my riding, putting our community

Health-based Approach to Substance Use Act   safety critic, and one of my colleagues was referencing a committee study that we did on guns and gang violence. I want to echo his comments, because many of the police officers who appeared before our committee were talking about how the issues of gun violence and the illicit drug

Justice committee   and organized crime and gun violence and the illegal drug trade. That is where I believe we need to focus. I just wanted to get that point out before we moved onto another clause. Thank you, Chair.

Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1   in large quantities from China to Canada as a way of Chinese residents moving capital out of China to the safe haven of Canada by evading the country's currency export controls of $50,000 U.S. per year. The proceeds from the drug trade are laundered through casinos or invested in, among

Status of Women committee  %. These neighbourhoods are often where indigenous youth and adults migrate first and where they are preyed upon by sex trade exploiters, traffickers, gangs and drug trade profiteers. While industry work camps are able to establish codes of conduct for workers and contractors on site

Justice committee  , drug trade, poverty and homelessness. I serve as executive director of CEASE. This organization grew from the experiences of neighbourhood residents working together with street outreach and safe housing agencies, law enforcement and Crown prosecutors, parents whose daughters

Afghanistan committee   at the drug trade, for example, and we did spend a tremendous amount of time looking at the finances behind the Taliban, the opioids trade and how the organization functions and works. The other thing we look at is the relationship between the Taliban, al Qaeda, ISIS-K and other

Criminal Code   recruitment of young people into gangs and the drug trade. Mandatory minimums assist the police and prosecutors to ensure the safety of witnesses. By keeping violent offenders off the street, greater opportunity is provided to engage in early intervention and prevent criminal gang

Criminal Code   will, except destroy entire lives. In America, for example, the notion that harsh minimums could seriously dampen the drug trade has collapsed in the face of the manifest failure of the drug war. With the way our current justice system is set up, we have criminalized poverty, mental

Public Safety committee   moved at this committee when Staff Sergeant Michael Rowe of the Vancouver Police Department made that very clear connection between the profitability of the illicit drug trade and the link to firearms. In fact, if you look at what fentanyl has done, one kilogram of fentanyl can now

Public Safety committee   move to you. We have had other law enforcement officials talk at great length about the link between the illegal drug trade and the illegal firearms trade. Certainly Vancouver police have identified how the high profitability of the drug trade in Vancouver has led to an explosion