Remember when the crime bills first came in -- there was not going to be any additional costs -- everything was to be revenue neutral. In fact, the story below doesn't tell the whole story as the bulk of the new inmates will be at the Provincial level...
http://tinyurl.com/yznts22
Ottawa will spend more money on federal prisons in coming years – a rare exception to government-wide restraint and a sharp contrast to efforts by cash-strapped American states to save money through lower inmate populations.
New figures released this week show the budget for Corrections Canada is projected to rise 27 per cent from the 2010-2011 fiscal year to 2012-13, when it will reach $3.1-billion. More than 4,000 new positions will be created at correctional institutions and parole offices across the country, with estimates of a 25-per-cent increase in employees during the same period.
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No problem. We will just stop the taxcuts to corperations. Next crisis...
In essence, if I understand this correctly, The Feds are offloading the costs onto the provinces.
Moreover, they are spendng money on Federal prisons but Provincial jails will become overcrowded creating a dangerous environment for both staff and inmates.
If this is the case, then what will they have accomplished? Nothing other than media attention.
Big Winnie, if clues were shoes you Liberals would be barefoot.
BW, You have it right. (I guess I go barefoot too!)
Clueless hug a thuggers.
You people are well on your way to being "da turd pardi" or worse.
The trolls are trying to be smart, do not believe the police. nor anyone else, that is against Harper's crime laws and there are very many who are opposed. All of Canada will be bare foot with his gang's spending.
Clueless is a MASSIVE funding increase for prisons when crime rates have been going down for years with modest funding increases comparable to other departments.
If we continue this way, we will end up like the U.S., privatizing our prison systems, after we built them with Canadian tax dollars. Then for the private prisons to make money, they will have to have inmates sent to them, and not all will be guilty, or given harsher jail sentences for a minor crime, just to make the corporation that owns the prison profitable.
Whoever said our crime was going down is right, makes you wonder which lobbey group is forking out money to the PM and his buddies to get these inane laws passed.
Get the corporate lobbying money out of our government.
Dangerous suspect sought in Surrey shooting
Last Updated: Monday, March 29, 2010 | 1:33 PM PT
CBC News
Surrey RCMP are dealing with their third violent incident in as many days after a man was shot twice in the leg inside his home early Monday morning.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/03/29/bc-surrey-shooting.html#ixzz0jbS6eeuq
News Toronto & GTA
Fear fuelling gun violence
“We knew tthis was going to be a mistrial. We just knew it”
By CHRIS DOUCETTE, Toronto Sun
Last Updated: March 26, 2010 11:12pm
So much has changed, yet so much remains the same since Toronto's innocence slipped away along with 15-year-old Jordan Manner's last breath in the halls of C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute on May 23, 2007.
"We equate this to a Columbine type of crime," Toronto Police Det.-Sgt. Mike Barsky said Friday outside court, looking obviously dejected after his case against Manners' alleged killers ended in a mistrial.
"This is the first time we've had an active shooter in a Toronto school, during school hours," the homicide investigator explained.
Since that fateful day nearly three years ago, the Toronto District School Board commissioned a study on school safety by Julian Falconer.
Now dubbed the Falconer Report, it found there were major problems within the city's schools with a "gang mentality" and bullying topping the list.
But the study also revealed there was a serious disconnect between students and staff, among many other things.
That report led to police officers being placed within a select number of schools around the city.
James, I believe you had a blog about this issue (costs being downloaded to the provinces) last year as well but I was unable to locate it. Would you be able to post the link to it?
Thanks
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