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E C A r e v i e w H A N N A / C o r o N A t i o n / S t e t t l e r , A b D E C E m b e r 6 ' 1 8 17 PrairieView Laws that target criminals by Herman Schwenk We hear a lot on the news these days about gun violence, especially in the large urban centers. Recently Toronto set a record for homicides. They have recorded 90 so far this year. That is one more than the 89 that was recorded in all of 1991. More than one half of those homicides were the result of gang members shooting each other in turf wars. Now I am sure that many of us think that may not be so bad but law enforcement seems to take a dim view of anyone killing anyone for any reason even if it is guest opinion Time to rethink the federal transfers system by David McKinnon Senior Fellow Atlantic Institute for Market Studies programming is less accessible in Ontario and in some cases Alberta than in equalizationreceiving provinces. It is time for a fundamental course change by Atlantic Canadians with respect to equalization and other regional subsidies. I recently made a presentation to independent senators in Ottawa on this subject in which I said that Canada’s regional subsidies were ineffective. We’ve had a half-century of remark- “ Provincial ably large subsidies to Quebec and Atlantic Canada, recently amounting to several thousand dollars per citizen per year in each of the Atlantic Provinces. Yet Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island are still at the bottom of a list of Canadian provinces and international peers measured by economic output per person. Quebec and Manitoba were only slightly better. Meanwhile, Newfoundland and Labrador faces a grave financial crisis. At the same meeting of the Senate, the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, a research institute associated with the University of Toronto, described the unfairness of this system, particularly in relation to Ontario. The Mowat presentation showed that over the 10 years from 2007 to 2016, the net financial benefit from the federation for Atlantic Canada was $120 billion. Ontario contributed $96 billion over this period, even though its manufacturing sector was encountering criminals killing each other. The Liberals and Conservatives have somewhat different theories on how to best combat illegal gun violence. The Liberals and the Toronto mayor think the best way to solve the problem is to outlaw all handgun ownership. Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives have developed a seven point policy position on curbing gun and gang violence. While I agree this is the right approach to tackle the Schwenk serious difficulties, including shrinking employment. This indicated that “a good deal of this gap is attributable to unprincipled allocations of federal funding that do not benefit Ontarians.” Many Ontario organizations have expressed concern over the years about the scale of these problems, including the Ontario government, the Drummond Commission on Reform of Ontario’s Public Services, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and others. There’s also substantial concern about the impact on Albertans of their disproportionate net contribution to transfers. This was a remarkable $228.6 billion between 2007 and 2016. With rare exceptions, such as former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna, there has been limited response to these concerns from political leaders in this part of the country. They seem to hope these pressures will eventually go away. When Atlantic leaders do defend the status quo, they usually appeal to historical events in the 19th century, such as Sir John A. Macdonald’s national policy, to justify current arrangements where Alberta and Ontario pay big for Atlantic Canada’s public sector largesse. Or they sling to sentimentality, based on the idea that huge and uninformed transfers from some Canadian pockets to others reflects a higher morality of sharing. What has been lacking in all these responses is any recognition that the transfer system is unsustainable - or that the subsidies should never be in place forever. Most importantly, provincial programming is less accessible in Ontario and in some cases Alberta than in equalization-receiving provinces, something Atlantic Canada’s leaders have also failed to recognize. This means there’s no merit to the argument that Atlantic Canada needs help to bring its services up to national standards. So major changes are needed. What should they be? The first change should be to recognize excessive provincial governments problem of guns and gangs, I don’t think that it goes far enough to be really effective. Included in these ideas are: prison time for knowingly possessing a smuggled gun, creating a Canada Border Services Agency task force to stop the importation of hand guns, new penalties for selling guns to prohibited users, and lifetime firearms ban for violent and gang criminals. This all sounds fine when you look at it on paper. They are trying to solve a serious problem with the same toothless laws that are in existence now. In fact, the Conservatives under Stephen Harper did toughen the criminal laws some but as soon as Trudeau Atlantic Canada enjoys a level of public spending that far outreaches that of the provinces that contribute most to equalization payments “ are the real barrier to growth in Atlantic Canada. They drive up taxes, lead to excessive infrastructure, crowd out the private sector and produce government-driven economies that are out of phase with a market-driven world. Hospitals are a good indication of excessive infrastructure that drives up costs and leads to high taxes that negatively impact growth. Nova Scotia has a hospital for every 22,000 citizens compared with Ontario, which has a hospital site for every 57,000 citizens. The patterns in Newfoundland and Labrador and P.E.I. are similar. New Brunswick has a hospital for every 30,000 people. Similar excesses are evident throughout the public sector in Atlantic Canada. Government employment in Newfoundland and Labrador as a portion of the provincial labour force is 40 per cent higher than the national average. The second change should be to recognize that federal subsidies, including equalization and many other arrangements, have failed to improve the fortunes of Atlantic Canada. They’re ineffective. The third change is to recognize there are solutions for these grave problems that have been developed by many organizations. They’re not easy solutions. The presentations to the senators described some of them, including a reformed equalization program that funds public sector restructuring, pilot projects on guaranteed income, improved methods of calculating equalization payments to provinces and several others. Above all, we need regional leaders who are informed, brave and willing to take risks. If leadership with these qualities comes forward and engages the public in a realistic way on real issues, the problems can be managed. The future of Atlantic Canada ultimately depends on whether good leaders emerge who can take the region on a better but different path. David MacKinnon is a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies. came to power he relaxed them. Contrary to what the Liberals think, it is not the guns that are the problem. It is the gangs and the gang members that are the problem. “ This is a feel-good political law, that does not address the problem of illegal gun use and neither does the Conservatives lifetime ban for violent and gang criminals. I have said for years that there has to be a law that makes it illegal for a gang to exist and illegal for any one to be a member of a gang. With the amount of guns that are in circulation now it is impossible to disarm the criminals. The focus has to be on removing the criminal. Unless they are actually arrested for murder, gang members are let out on bail soon after they are arrested, regardless of the offence. Does anyone actually think that criminals follow bail conditions until trial? Not a chance! They go back to doing what they were doing before their arrest. The Liberals have proposed Bill C-71 as an answer. This Bill targets the lawabiding citizen rather than the criminal by putting more restrictions on the citizen for owning and transporting hand guns. An e-petition has been signed by 86,000 Canadians to have this bill scraped as it does nothing to deter criminals. This is a feel-good political law, that does not address the problem of illegal gun use and neither does the Conservatives lifetime ban for violent and gang criminals. The law needs to target the criminal. Those arrested and charged for gang activity should be locked up without bail until after trial. If convicted the sentence should be no less than 15 years. This might provide some incentive to look for a safer occupation. More preventive work needs to be done in urban schools to incent students into constructive activities and away from crime. With the number of guns in circulation now it would be impossible to ban them in Toronto, or anywhere else for that matter. The only solution I can see is to somehow remove the criminal from the street and that may require infringing on some human rights protocols. Wedding Album 2018 send your wedding photo and information to ECA Review Box 70 Coronation, Ab T0C 1C0 or email to office@ECAreview.com “
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