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Public Safety, Policing, & the Justice System

Police and policing platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Recruit and train 1,000 more RCMP personnel
  • Establish a new RCMP academy within Depot
  • Increase pay for RCMP cadet recruits

Conservative

  • Put defibrillators in RCMP vehicles

    "Put AEDs in RCMP vehicles in order to save lives. Canada faces a crisis in rural areas, where a lack of defibrillators results in deaths for people who have sudden cardiac arrests that could otherwise be alive today." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

We don't have any Bloc policies on Police and policing.

NDP

  • Work with Indigenous communities to develop a First Nations Justice and Policing strategy
  • Declare First Nations policing an essential service, with long-term sufficient and equitable funding

Green

  • Establish a national, evidence-based police use-of-force standard, banning chokeholds and carotid holds

    "Establish a national, evidence-based police use-of-force standard, banning chokeholds, carotid holds, and other dangerous techniques." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Implement a national standard for independent police oversight
  • Establish a national database tracking police use-of-force incidents
  • Place strict limits on how the RCMP can exercise its injunction powers

    "Place strict limits on how the RCMP can exercise its injunction powers, particularly when acting for private interests. Specifically, RCMP must not use military gear or weapons, and must stop the harassment of Indigenous persons who are living peacefully on their own lands or on unceded territory." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Develop clear laws on how the RCMP can use third party or private companies to collect and use personal information about Canadians

    "Develop clear laws on how the RCMP can use third party or private companies to collect and use personal information about Canadians, so that the privacy rights and other fundamental rights of individuals are protected." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

  • Launch a national inquiry into systemic racism in policing, including an investigation into recent in-custody deaths and the disproportionate use of force against First Nations

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