• Hiring an additional 200 RCMP officers to combat gangs and the smuggling of guns and drugs.
  • The officers will be based in the GTA and the Lower Mainland and will help keep our communities safe.
• Establishing an entities list for criminal gangs.
  • This would eliminate the requirement for Crown Attorneys to prove that an organization is a criminal organization and would only require the Crown to prove that the accused is a member of such an organization.
• Amending the automatic detention provisions of the Criminal Code by adding:
  • “with an offence in the commission of which violence was allegedly used, threatened or attempted and the accused had previously been convicted of for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with, a criminal organization”.
• Amending the Criminal Code so that usage of the same firearm by two separate individuals in the commission of a crime would create a rebuttable presumption that a criminal organization committed the offences.
• Partnering with the private sector to create a Gang Exit Strategy program that will see the power of the private sector harnessed to give offenders the opportunity to escape a cycle of violence and start fresh in a new location with gainful employment and the support needed to leave behind a life of crime.
• Working with partner organizations across the country to develop and expand programs to keep youth out of gangs.

— Canada's Recovery Plan, retrieved 2021-08-18

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