— The federal government will allocate up to $327.6 million over five years and $100 million a year after that to fight gun and gang violence, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Friday. The money will finance a variety of programs to cut gun crime and criminal gang activities and stem the flow of illegal firearms into communities. “Guns and gangs are not someone else’s problem, they are everyone’s problem and we need to work together to develop more effective intervention and enforcement approaches for reducing gun and gang violence across Canada,” Goodale said at an event in Surrey, B.C. It also says 76 per cent of gang-related homicides involve firearms, compared with 20 per cent of non-gang killings. “Too many young people have been killed and too many communities have been marred by gun crime and gun violence,” he said.

Source: National Post November 17, 2017 19:49 UTC