After 2 days of commercial talks, the Prime Ministers approach crime, bond reform and health care

After two days of strategy on how to react to the President of Commerce, US President Donald Trump takes place in Canada, the Prime Ministers sat on Wednesday to discuss violent crimes, drug trafficking and health care.

They call on the federal government to keep its promise to introduce legislation in the fall which results in Parliament which will make more difficult for violent violent offenders to obtain a deposit.

The provinces have “evolved in all aspects we think we can,” said Saskatchewan Prime Minister Scott Moe, on the way to the morning meeting on Wednesday.

“The important change which will have important consequences for people who bring these toxic drugs to our communities is a change in the Criminal Code of Canada.”

Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford said that Canadians are just fed up “by seeing repeated violent offenders or cars thieves have given a deposit and urged the federal government to consider using the American conviction as inspiration for Canada.

“We cannot free people the next day after launching the doors of people, putting firearms on people’s heads, terrorizing the neighborhood, terrorizing families,” said Ford.

Ontario’s “kneeling” judges insisted that part of the problem is “low knee and the only way to tackle this by imposing mandatory minimum sentences.

Prime Minister of New Brunswick Susan Holt told journalists at the summit in Huntsville, Ontario, that the Prime Ministers of Canada had discussed in depth of the bond reform and that they are all on the same wavelength.

“We must have flexibility at the provincial level to be difficult for hard people for Canadians,” she said.

This flexibility, she said, includes the provinces able to put their own limits to conviction and deposit.

Health care financing

During the electoral campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney proposed modifications to the surety system that would require recurrences, accused of crimes such as home invasions, violent car flight or the trafficking of human beings, to prove that they deserve the surety before its allocation.

Currently, prosecutors must prove that denying someone’s surety is justified.

Carney is also committed to hardening convictions to allow consecutive sentences for the theft of violent car, the flight of car involving criminal gangs and serious and violent offenses.

The Prime Ministers say that they also want a boost to federal health transfers and flexibility to fight against the provision of health care in a manner adapted to the needs of each province.

Ford said the previous federal government had short-circuited the provinces and that Ontario needs more money to train and hire doctors and nurses.

“I would like to sit with the rest of the first first and find a figure that would support us for the next short time,” said Ford.

Moe said that Canadian health care needs differ from one region to the next, and that funding must reflect this.

“We certainly believe that they should meet the needs of the population,” said Holt. “Right now, it is a flat model per inhabitant, but in New Brunswick, we have an older population and which is more sick than the rest of Canada.”

Ford said he had “no problem taking care of the small provinces”, but he said he was looking for a more “fair” funding model.