Canada’s Public Safety minister says more help is coming to communities like Kamloops to help deal with gang violence.
Ralph Goodale says a new federal strategy has been developed, in consultation with the provinces, to directly target guns, gangs, and drugs.
Funding on that front is just now being rolled out.
“There will be over $200 million that will be distributed by the Government of Canada through provincial justice departments to develop programs locally,” Goodale said, on the NL Morning News.
“That can mean more effective crime investigations and prosecutions, and also ways to intervene in behaviour, especially among young people, to try and divert them away from that kind of activity before it begins.”
He adds the funding will increase in the years ahead and is meant to augment what is already being done with local and provincial resources to tackle guns, gangs, and drugs.