This is a page from the 2019 Canadian general election.
Looking for a different election? Click here.
Justice, Crime, & Law Enforcement

Gangs platforms

Here's what the 2019 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Invest an additional $50m each year for five years in dedicated funding to help municipalities meet the needs of communities at risk.
  • Work to expand successful diversion programmes to keep at-risk youth out of the criminal justice system.

Conservative

  • End automatic bail for gang members awaiting trial and revoke parole for those who associate with their former gang following release.
  • Identify known gangs as criminal entities.
  • Bring in tougher sentences including 5-year mandatory prison sentence for violent gang crime.

Read more

End automatic bail for gang members awaiting trial and revoke parole for any gang member who associates with their former gang following release.

Identify known gangs as criminal entities in the Criminal Code, similar to how terrorist organizations are currently listed.

Bring in tougher sentences, including a five-year minimum mandatory prison sentence for violent gang crime, with a new five-year minimum mandatory prison sentence for possession of a smuggled firearm.

From Andrew Scheer releases Conservative plan for A Safer Canada, retrieved 2019-10-08.

Read less

We don't have any Bloc policies on Gangs.
We don't have any Green policies on Gangs.
We don't have any PPC policies on Gangs.

Looking for the parties' positions on other topics?

See our full 2019 Canadian election platform comparison