Dion Hasn't Come Up With Anything New

These are basically what Harper has put before parliament but Dion, Layton and Doucette have tied up passage of law and order legislation. Those are the questions Dion needs to answer. Where are the reforms to make criminals pay for their crimes rather than be rewarded? Where is mandatory sentencing? Where is the stop/search legislation and protection of police from nuisance racial profiling charges? Where is the three strikes and you are out legislation?

Dion's law-and-order strategy
Accused of being too soft, he pledges funds for police, tougher gun penalties
March 14, 2007
Susan Delacourt
Ottawa Bureau Chief

OTTAWA–Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion is promising to pour millions of dollars into hiring police officers and Crown attorneys, as well as a crackdown on gun and Internet crime, when he rolls out his law-and-order platform today in Mississauga.

Accused repeatedly by Conservatives of being "soft on crime," Dion will fire back this morning with a substantial shopping list of measures Liberals would take to improve public safety. The list, obtained by the Star, includes:

# More money for provinces to hire municipal police officers.

# An extra $200 million for the RCMP to hire 400 officers as part of a new "rapid enforcement team" to fight gangs and gun activity, organized crime and drug trafficking.

# Reverse-onus bail hearings for people arrested on gun crime, which would require the arrested to justify their release on bail.

# Tougher laws to protect children from being lured by Internet-based predators and to make it harder for criminals to commit identity theft.

# Setting up a fund to help improve security at places of worship for "at-risk communities."