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Public Safety committee  Here's the thing. You don't know what they're there for in the middle of the night. They were 10 feet from our door. Who knows if there were five other people surrounding our house?

October 18th, 2018Committee meeting

Jessica Maurice

Public Safety committee  I think one of the things that needs to be done is a review of RCMP policies and procedures, and how they handle situations like this. Landowners and people protecting themselves in similar situations should be presumed innocent, not guilty first. In this case, they jumped the gu

October 18th, 2018Committee meeting

Jessica Maurice

Public Safety committee  I don't think we have very many comments on the policing numbers. What we are trying to get across to you is what people are communicating to us in the different types of stories, and what the reality is for landowners.

October 18th, 2018Committee meeting

Jessica Maurice

Public Safety committee  Yes. They've recently, I think in March or April, dedicated more funding to police in Alberta.

October 18th, 2018Committee meeting

Jessica Maurice

Public Safety committee  Yes. We actually have the Alberta sheriffs. We've heard some people recommend that they get more power. Right now, they're not allowed to help the police. They have certain jurisdictional issues, I believe, so they could improve the jurisdiction of the sheriffs to allow them to

October 18th, 2018Committee meeting

Jessica Maurice

Public Safety committee  The reality is that the police still can't get there in the 15 seconds when people are breaking into your home, like in this example. It sounds like they may be closer in a town in Manitoba. When you're half an hour out of town, the police are still not going to get there, regar

October 18th, 2018Committee meeting

Jessica Maurice

Public Safety committee  This actually affects urban people, so I'm glad you brought this up. A weapon can be anything. It doesn't have to be a gun. It could be a baseball bat. It could be a frying pan that you hit somebody over the head with. It has happened in urban areas, but probably isn't reported

October 18th, 2018Committee meeting

Jessica Maurice

Public Safety committee  We became a focal point for people in rural communities across both Alberta and Canada as many people identified with our situation and felt that they would have done the same thing in the same situation. At one local town hall meeting on rural crime, over 300 people gave us an u

October 18th, 2018Committee meeting

Jessica Maurice