Life sentences for gun, drug and human traffickers, Poilievre promises​on March 28, 2025 at 9:19 pm

OTTAWA — A Conservative government would ensure a life sentence for criminals charged with the worst crimes.

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Speaking to reporters in Nanaimo on Friday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre outlined his party’s plan to ensure gun and fentanyl smugglers — as well as human traffickers — get sent away for life.

“Here in British Columbia, people are more afraid than ever before of crime,” he said.

“Violent crime is up 50%, human trafficking up 84%, calls to the national human trafficking hotline up 238% in the past six years.”

Perpetrators of these crimes, Poilievre said, are often released on bail or parole, where they frequently re-offend.

Eighty-five per cent of crime guns in Canada, he said, are smuggled across the border from the United States, and blamed the Trudeau Liberals for doing away with mandatory minimum sentences for gun criminals.

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“Opioids have killed 50,000 people during the lost Liberal decade or decriminalization and tax-funded (drug) supply,” he said.

Re-electing the Liberals under Mark Carney, Poilievre said, would mean more of the same.

Poilievre promised to repeal Bill C-5, which eliminated mandatory minimum sentences and end house arrest for serious offenders, reinstate mandatory prison sentences for gun, drug and human traffickers, repeal Bill C-75 which he described as the “Liberal catch-and-release law,” and end Bill C-83 — which Poilievre said allows serious offenders like mass murderers to serve their time in medium-security penitentiaries.

“We will ensure the monsters that kill our people and endanger our communities go to jail for life,” he said.

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