Anti-crime laws will cost billions: watchdog
KATHLEEN HARRIS, Parliamentary Bureau
OTTAWA - The Conservative tough-on-crime agenda will cost Canadian taxpayers billions, according to a new report from the parliamentary spending watchdog.
The 125-page analysis by parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page projects spending will more than double to $9.5 billion in the next five years to keep convicted criminals locked up longer - including a multimillion-dollar price tag for building new prisons and heftier annual operating and maintenance costs
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If you scrap the useless gun registry and stop the $1.3billion subsidy to the CBC, that ought to pay for it.
Nevermind just how stupid this bill is, let's ask "What's the opportunity cost?"
Where do we cut the billion dollars a year this will cost us for the next five years? From
1. Health Care
2. Education
3. Police and courts
4. Infrastructure
5. Environment
Now, there's how to frame the retort.
Larry:
"If you scrap the useless gun registry"
That's just a few million/year, and we know it isn't useless.
Indeed, if we are scrapping useless initiatives, then this stupid crime bill needs to go.
"stop the $1.3billion subsidy to the CBC"
How about stopping the huge subsidies to the oil and gas sectors? Besides, provinces are going to end up paying for this crime bill, and the CBC is paid out of *federal* funds.
"That's just a few million/year, and we know it isn't useless."
That's one thing I find so amusing about you Liberals. You think you protect Canadians by paperwork and regulations rather than by force...such as a police force. The registry is useless..even the chief of police in Calgary thinks so.
Oil and gas subsidies help to employ Canadians...and who cares where the money for the CBC comes from? There's only one taxpayer.
That's just a few million/year, and we know it isn't useless.
Do you think maybe we can retire that myth? Before the RCMP took over the cost was between 70 and 85 million a year. What a miracle that when the RCMP took over that cost was suddenly 3 million. Either that or the creative book-keepers are doing a wonderful job of hiding the true costs for political benefit. But we know the RCMP would NEVER do something like that.
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