Public Safety committee  No, it hasn't. For the rest of my life, those charges are on my name. Anytime we decide to travel, to take our kids to Disneyland, I may not be able to go with them. I may be turned away at the border, sent back home, and they'll have to go on without me. Further, I just got my f

Public Safety committee  Essentially, and I still am missing a firearm. Our local RCMP does not have it. We don't know if it's still at forensics. We have no idea where it is and who has it. I have still not received it 115 days after my charges were dropped.

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  Why are we having to put out tens of thousands of dollars just to deter the criminals? When we drive down our roads now, we can't stop in and talk to our neighbours because there are gates on every single yard that we used to drive into.

Public Safety committee  Really, the overall feeling in Alberta is that people aren't going to call. They'd rather call their neighbours. They are setting up plans to deal with it themselves. People are saying they're just going to shoot, shovel and shut up from now on. They don't want to be the next Edd

Public Safety committee  When we were going through the whole court battle, we had to have conversations that no family should ever have. “What if I do have to go to jail? What will happen? We'll have to sell our property. What will we tell our kids?” These are conversations that we had to have privately

Public Safety committee  And theft under $5,000. When he was on our property, that was his third time being arrested. He was arrested four times in a matter of six months for the same—

Public Safety committee  Absolutely.

Public Safety committee  I would not call the RCMP. That is why I was prosecuted. The criminals who came onto my property were on drugs. They didn't know where they were. In their statements, they couldn't even locate us at all. I wouldn't have had to go through what I went through if I hadn't called for

Public Safety committee  My name is Eddie Maurice and this is my wife Jessica. Thank you for inviting us here to share our story and speak on an issue that has greatly affected us. We were invited here to speak because when two criminals came onto my rural property in February, I was the one arrested b