OTTAWA – Support is pouring in for the Conservative Party’s plan to Stand up for Security.
Ron Moran, National President of the Customs Excise Union (CEUDA)
- “We are very pleased with Mr. Harper’s proposals as they relate to border security. This represents the most serious and detailed plan to better enforce control at our border crossings and to give Canada’s Custom Officers the safety, powers and resources they need that we have seen from any political party” (CEUDA news release, January 5, 2006).
Canadian Professional Police Association (CPPA)
- “…the Conservative Party’s Security Platform as unveiled this morning by Mr. Harper offers a multi-pronged approach that for the most part, would go a long way in helping police officers to better combat and contain urban violence; violent offenders; and the use, production and trafficking of illicit drugs; and to better defend our national security and the rights of victims of crimes” (CPPA news release, January 5, 2006).
Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH)
- “In the case of both Mr. Harper’s platform on crime and Mr. McGuinty’s announcement targeting illegal guns and gun crime, they quite correctly focus on criminals and the illegal use of guns to commit crime, and not on legal, trained and law-abiding hunters, farmers and recreational sports shooters who are clearly not part of the problem” (OFAH news release, January 5, 2006).
Julian Fantino, Ontario Emergency Management Commissioner
- “Commissioner Julian Fantino says that [the Conservative security plan] could help combat the growing gun crime problem in Toronto. Fantino says Harper’s plan captures the public’s mood of ‘enough is enough’” (Broadcast News, January 5, 2006).
The Conservative Party’s plan to Stand up for Security includes a broad series of justice reforms including sentencing reform, dealing with sex offenders, effective gun control, strengthening the Youth Criminal Justice Act, promoting victims’ rights, ensuring effective deportation laws, and creating a national drug strategy.
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