The election 2006 Conservative Party promise said this:
The plan
A Conservative government will:
• Reinvest savings from cancellation of the ineffective long-gun registry program into hiring more front-line
enforcement personnel, including filling 1,000 RCMP positions.
• Negotiate with the provinces to create a new cost-shared program jointly with provincial and municipal
governments, to put at least 2,500 more police on the beat in our cities and communities.
• Invest $100 million per year of new federal money on criminal justice priorities, including working
with the provinces and municipalities to hire more police, as well as victim assistance and youth crime
prevention programs.
Two surplus budgets later, on March 30 2007, the police, and an article at CTV.ca, said this:
Police rap Tories for failing to fund more officers
Janice Tibbetts, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, March 30, 2007OTTAWA—The police, one of the Harper government’s strongest allies, launched on Wednesday an attack on the Conservatives by publicly lambasting them for failing to deliver on a key election promise to put 2,500 more police officers on the streets.
Three national police organizations issued their rebuke in a joint press release, a sign cracks are emerging in the close relationship between the Conservatives and the police, who are frequently at government’s side as it promotes its law-and-order agenda.
“Despite many attempts to move forward on this issue with Federal Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, a formal process has yet to be engaged,” the Canadian Police Association, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and the Canadian Association of Police Boards said in their statement.
As soon as the police groups delivered their public denouncement, officials in Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day’s office called to set up a meeting, said Tony Cannavino, president of the Canadian Police Association.
The overture was a sudden change of heart, said Cannavino, considering his previous telephone calls and requests to meet with Day have gone unanswered.
“He just doesn’t seem to get it,” added Cannavino, who wants Day to convene a meeting with the provinces to get started on negotiating the promised cost-share agreements to hire more officers.
The attack on Day is an about-face for the police association, which until now has had nothing but praise for the Conservative government on the law-and-order front.
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Maybe if the police agencies promise to put all those badly needed extra cops in black ‘n white “carbon neutral” horse and buggy units with hemp-bio-diesel-powered sirens and lights, and “invest” in “carbon offsets” so as to reduce any possible CO² or methane man-made or horse-made greenhouse gasses, and mind their nasty “carbon footprints”, and promise to fund their daycare (and “early learning” —wink!) needs, then Canada’s new government (kinda like edition) would go for it.
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