Calgarians have told me they welcome our initiatives and concrete action to combat crime. They want Parliament to move quickly and decisively to make our communities safer.

The Government of Canada has responded by introducing the Tackling Violent Crimes Act (Bill C-2), legislation that will ensure key reforms to Canada’s criminal justice move swiftly through the legislative process and finally become law. This legislation brings forth again significant crime bills that were extensively debated by Parliament during its last session, but unfortunately never came to pass.

Measures contained in the Bill include:

• imposing mandatory jail time for serious gun crimes;

• enforcing tougher bail rules when a gun is used to commit a crime;

• increasing the age of consent for sexual activity from 14 to 16 years;

• cracking down on drug-impaired driving; and

• ensuring that high-risk and dangerous offenders face tougher consequences when they are sentenced and are kept better track of to prevent them from offending again and again.

Bill C-2 is important legislation that responds to the priorities of Calgarians.

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