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Liberals will strengthen public safety to build stronger, safer communities

The Liberal Party has a strong record on reducing crime. We believe in tough sentences for serious crimes. But unlike the Conservatives, Liberals don’t think the solution is to spend billions on US-style mega-prisons that will only produce more hardened criminals.  Meanwhile, the Conservatives have cut funding for crime prevention and victims programs and broken their promise to hire 2500 more police officers.

Unlike the NDP, our party stood united in support of the life-saving gun registry, alongside Canada’s police officers, police chiefs, ER doctors and nurses, and the victims of crime. We support improvements to the gun registry that address the legitimate concerns of gun-owners, while also giving police officers the tools they need to keep us safe.

  1. Only the Liberal Party will defend gun control

    April 26, 2011

    VANCOUVER – The Liberal Party of Canada is the only federal party that will continue to defend gun control, while the Conservatives and NDP have shown [...]  More »

  2. Statement by Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff on the Liberal Party of Canada’s commitment to Canada’s federal prison farm program

    April 13, 2011

    OTTAWA – Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff made the following statement on the Liberal Party’s commitment to restore Canada’s prison farm program: “A Liberal government remains steadfast [...]  More »

  3. Save the gun registry – again

    April 4, 2011

    Last September, while Jack Layton sat on his hands, the Liberal party sided with police officers, doctors, nurses and victims to fight to protect the life saving gun registry -- a campaign that concluded in a decisive vote in the House of Commons that should have put this debate to rest. Today, Harper is at it again.  More »

  4. Liberals to vote against Bill C-59

    February 16, 2011

    The Liberal Party of Canada will vote against Bill C-59 because it introduces sweeping and expensive changes to the parole system that would alter the parole [...]  More »

  5. Harper rewards Kingston Conservative candidate with plum judicial post

    February 10, 2011

    Just weeks after Brian Abrams mysteriously stepped down as the Conservative candidate in Kingston and The Islands, Stephen Harper and Rob Nicholson rewarded him with a [...]  More »

  6. Liberals oppose Bill S-10 as Conservatives hide mounting prison costs

    February 9, 2011

    The Liberal Party of Canada announced today that it will oppose Bill S-10 over concerns that the bill disproportionately targets youth and would cause an explosion [...]  More »

  7. Conservatives continue to fail victims of gun violence with deferral of gun marking regulations

    December 6, 2010

    The Conservative government has ignored victims of gun violence by refusing to help police officers track imported guns used in violent crimes with their decision to [...]  More »

  8. Liberals oppose Bill C-49 for targeting refugees instead of human smugglers

    December 1, 2010

     The Liberal Party of Canada announced today that it will not support Bill C-49, which masquerades as human smuggling legislation but fails to adequately target human [...]  More »

  9. Liberals demand action from Harper government on Fadden allegations

    October 27, 2010

    The Liberal Party will table a motion today to compel the Harper government to publicly apologize for smearing the Chinese-Canadian community and to call on CSIS [...]  More »

  10. Open letter to Kevin Page on the real cost of Conservative prison bill

    October 8, 2010

    October 8, 2010 Mr. Kevin Page, Parliamentary Budget Officer Library of Parliament Ottawa, ON    K1A 0A6 Dear Mr. Page: I am writing to you to [...]  More »

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