Canadians expect that foreign criminals will get due process before being removed, but not an endless abuse of our generosity. We will streamline the process for deporting foreign criminals. We will extend this program to prevent hate-motivated crime and help restore a sense of security among affected communities.
We will reintroduce our legislation to give law enforcement the tools they need to investigate and prevent acts of terrorism, to protect Canadians and defend our country against such atrocities. This initiative will strengthen the local and regional economies. We must ensure that it is never forgotten, in the hope that it will never be repeated.
Remembering the Holocaust also provides an opportunity to appreciate the historic advances in human rights that came about in response to its horrors.
At present, Canada is alone among our allies in lacking a national Holocaust memorial. We will establish a National Holocaust Memori- al, to be located in the National Capital Region, to ensure the victims and the lessons of the Holocaust are never forgotten.
As announced in the Speech from the Throne in , we will continue to support the establishment of the Memorial to Victims of Communism. The Memorial will stand in the National Capital Region as a reminder. We also expanded Nahanni National Park Reserve to six times its previous size — the greatest conservation achievement in a genera- tion. In the past four years alone, we have taken steps that will add more than , square kilometres to the existing lands and waters administered by Parks Canada — a percent increase, or an addito- inal protected area equivalent in size to a country such as Greece.
We will build on these major accomplishments to conserve and protect our environment. In establishing this new National Park, we will work toward an agree- ment with provincial, regional, municipal, Aboriginal, and community stakeholders. We will ensure that the rights and interests of farmers in the region are fully protected. We will also ensure that communi- ties in the region remain free to address their infrastructure needs.
Unlike the previous Liberal government — which signed grand international accords but took no action — our Government has a climate change plan, and it is working.
We will support economically viable clean energy projects that will assist regions and provinces in the replacement of fossil fuel with renewable fuel sources. It is estimated the project would reduce carbon emissions by 4. In addition to the criteria noted above, our support for any clean en- ergy project will be based on the principles of respect and equitable treatment for all regions of the country.
They express Canadian diversity and strengthen Canadian identity. Through the Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Canada, its G-8 partners, and leading charitable foundations are providing unprecedented resources to save the lives of countless women and children. We will continue to rally world leaders to follow through on our commitments to improve the health of women and children in developing countries.
We will also focus our post-combat efforts in Afghanistan on invest- ing in the education and health of children and youth; advancing security, the rule of law, and human rights; promoting regional diplomacy; and delivering humanitarian assistance.
Canadians agree that the justice system should not put the rights of criminals ahead of the rights of victims and law-abiding citizens. They believe that one victim is one victim too many.
The Ignatieff- led Coalition — true to its soft-on-crime ideology — has resisted and blocked our efforts. We believe the justice system must not put the rights of criminals ahead of the rights of victims.
But more is needed to hold criminals to account and to stand up for victims of crime. We will amend the Criminal Code to double the victim surcharge, and make it mandatory in every case without exception. We will also take action to support parents of murdered or missing children, and parents of gravely ill children.
No one but a parent who has experienced these things can imagine or understand their suffering. But we know we have a duty to help support them. Funding for this measure will come from general revenue, not EI premiums. Tackling drug use and the drug trade in federal pris- ons would greatly increase the success of rehabilitation efforts, and it would go a long way to making the system safer for guards and prisoners.
Its victims, most often vulnerable women and children, are used primarily in the sex trade. It is estimated that 12, to 15, persons in Canada are victims. We will also re-introduce legislation to protect vulnerable foreign workers — for example, women entering Canada to work as exotic dancers. We have also worked hard to defend the rights of victims of crime.
For example, we passed legislation to end the practice of granting concurrent periods of parole ineligibility — sentence discounts — for multiple murder. We must also take action to keep dangerous criminals behind bars where they belong. We will extend this principle, through legislation to end sentence discounts for multiple child sex offences and child pornography of- fences, including making, distributing, possessing, or accessing child pornography. And Canadians agree that we must do whatever we can to protect and honour those who have built our great country.
Elderly Canadi- ans have earned our gratitude for a lifetime of hard work in service to our families, our communities, and our country. Sadly, all too often they are victims of crime, including fraud, neglect, and violence, which robs them of their dignity and peace at a time of life when they deserve to enjoy special care and respect.
To help protect elderly Canadians and to ensure crimes against them are punished appropriately, we will amend the Criminal Code to add vulnerability due to age as an aggravating factor when sentencing those who commit crimes against elderly Canadians. But the police cannot be everywhere at once.
And in recent years the scales of justice have tipped too far in favour of the rights of crimi- nals at the expense of law-abiding citizens. It results in huge losses in revenue. More important, it makes it much cheaper — and therefore much easier — for children and teenagers to start smoking. And, by encour- aging smoking, it leads to higher health care costs and higher rates of smoking-related illness and death.
Enough is enough. Every day, the power of innovation is seen at work in communities across Canada, as citizens, businesses, and charitable groups join forces to tackle local problems.
For example, we provided support for Pathways to Education, to help it expand to cities across the country. Pathways is a practical,. Among many other actions, in we established the Youth Gang Prevention Fund, to support successful community programs that help youth who are in gangs or at risk of joining gangs. The Fund supports practical initiatives, including recreational oppor- tunities, peer and family support, mentoring, and life-skills develop- ment.
It is helping at-risk youth across the country to set their sights on education, employment, and a hopeful future. To build on our crime-prevention efforts, and to continue helping at-risk youth to make good choices for their future, we will renew our support for the Youth Gang Prevention Fund, and make it permanent. But Canadians in some regions of the country — especially rural and remote regions — continue to experience a shortage.
We will help attract new doctors, nurses and nurse practitioners to these communities, by forgiving a portion of federal student loans for those who agree to practice in under-served rural or remote areas. The result will be better health care and a higher quality of life for Canadians in rural and remote communities. Experience shows these investments can save lives.
They deserve our gratitude and support. The long-gun registry is wasteful and ineffective; and it needlessly and unfairly targets law-abiding Canadians. It does nothing to reduce crime, or to strengthen our efforts to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. They oppose our efforts to crack down on criminals who use guns, while insisting on heaping penalties on farmers and duck hunters.
We will end the long-gun registry once and for all. They remain central to the livelihood and traditions of many Canadi- ans, including Aboriginal and Northern communities. They are also an important part of many local and regional tourism industries. Unfortunately these legitimate recreational and commercial activities are sometimes threatened by unfair restrictions based on misunder- standings of rural economies and conservation practices.
But all too often decisions have been made without input from the Canadians most directly affected, who have unique exper- tise in the conservation of our natural heritage. We will establish a Hunting Advisory Panel, reporting to the Minister of the Environment, comprised of representatives of provincial and territorial hunters and anglers associations, to ensure government decisions are based on solid science and balanced advice.
These rights were omitted in drafting the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, however, leaving landowners without appropriate protec- tion against unfair restrictions on the use and enjoyment of their property. We will strengthen the rights of landowners, by reviewing the Species at Risk Act with a view to ensuring that when compensation is owed, compensation will be paid. Our Government has provided support to the National Trails Coali- tion for a national initiative to create and improve snowmobile and all-terrain-vehicle trails.
To date our support has helped improve trails across the country. We will build on this accomplishment, through additional funding for upgrades and new trails. Throughout our history they have been a crucial source of jobs and growth in every region of the country.
The federal government has worked with provincial governments to develop these resources responsibly and to create new opportunities. Recently our Government reached an historic accord with the Government of Quebec which sets the conditions to allow development in the area to proceed.
When each of them is focusing on the here and now and sniping at their opponents over whatever was picked up by the press the day before, its hardly surprising.
None of the parties is looking towards science to solve problems, plan for the future or delay the demographic avalanche of the aging demographic. We are being led by people with their eyes shut and their fingers crossed.
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Presumably, other research centres are not world-leading or producing enough outstanding work to qualify for support. CCD has been calling for a refundable disability tax credit which would put money in the pockets of Canadians with disabilities living in poverty. Poor Canadians without taxable incomes need refundable tax credits if they are to benefit from this type of tax policy. However, CCD is left wondering why people with disabilities have to wait until they reach 65 to have decent income security.
The presence of barriers in the labour market makes it impossible for some people with disabilities to find a job. CCD has been urging the Federal government to lift people with disabilities out of poverty as has been done for seniors. Employment has been a priority for the disability community, since our groups were first organized in the s. Through the National Action Plan, the disability community has shared with the Conservatives the following long and short term recommendations on employment:.
These funds must not be rolled into the LMDAs or new labour market transfers to the provinces and territories until it is demonstrated that LMDA's are capable of addressing disability in a substantive way; and that the lessons, incentives and strategies are being incorporated into these generic systems from those developed through the Multi-Lateral and Opportunities Fund programming.
There have also been calls for the Federal Government to become a model employer of people with disabilities and to implement a procurement policy which would guarantee that only accessible products and services are purchased by the Federal Government, thus making the Federal employment environment a showcase of universal design.
The disability community did not find its recommendations on employment addressed in the Conservative platform.
This was very disappointing for Canadians with disabilities. CCD believes that all Canadians should become informed about the issues being debated during the days leading up to Election Day.
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