Public Safety committee  I think that not so much funding into the police.... The police are a reactive response; they are not a proactive response. I think that programs like Marcell Wilson's with the One by One Movement, which does gang intervention.... I think that trauma support is a major factor, be

Public Safety committee  Yes. If there was to be a ban implemented, it would most definitely have to be a federal ban. Copping out to the provinces and municipalities isn't going to do anything. We have people who travel back and forth. We have people on Canada-wide warrants who travel from province to p

Public Safety committee  As I said previously, for every act of violence, whether it's suicide or a mass shooting, whatever the case may be, there is always an intervention point. That person has been failed by whomever, whether it's the person closest to them, a service provider or even those whose job

Public Safety committee  The short answer would be no, it would not have any affect at all. The long answer is that it absolutely infuriates me that the government that is supposed to be acting on our behalf is willing to dump more than $1 billion into a buyback from legal owners, and the $250 million th

Public Safety committee  Thank you. In 2008, as I said, the “Review of the Roots of Youth Violence” report was released after the 2005 “year of the gun” issue we had in the city of Toronto. Outlined in that report are various recommendations that were put out by the provincial government to tackle [Te

Public Safety committee  That's okay.

Public Safety committee  Thank you.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. My organization is Communities for Zero Violence. Thank you for inviting me to speak in this forum. My name is Evelyn Fox. I'm the founder of Communities for Zero Violence, a non-profit agency that provides peer-led supports for homicide survivors and victims of commu