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RSS FeedsDoug Ford has promised to `fix` Ontario´s new policing laws. What could that look like?
(The Star Television)

 
 

20 august 2018 03:37:56

 
Doug Ford has promised to `fix` Ontario´s new policing laws. What could that look like?
(The Star Television)
 


It was one of the first acts of Premier Doug Ford’s new government. Just hours after being sworn in, the Progressive Conservatives postponed the implementation of new police oversight legislation, one day before it was scheduled to come into effect.Done quietly via an order in council, the move has been characterized by the Ford government as a temporary halt to allow for time to review the new law, which granted greater powers to the provincial police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU). “We have pressed pause on this,” Attorney General Caroline Mulroney said last month, when questioned at Queen’s Park. “We want to work with our front-line police officers to make sure that we have the right answer on this issue.”During heated exchanges that ensued during Question Period, NDP leader of the opposition Andrea Horwath accused the Ford government of “secretly slamming the brakes” on the legislation, comments that later prompted Ford to call the NDP “police haters.”The SIU legislation was just one part of an overhaul of police legislation passed this spring by the previous Liberal government. When the legislation package, known as Bill 175 or the Safer Ontario Act, was unveiled late last year it was hailed as historic and overdue.But with promises from the Ford government to “fix” the bill, the halt on the SIU Act may be only the first alteration to laws with still-drying ink. Michael Tibollo, minister of community safety and correctional services, said last month that the province is “committed to fixing Bill 175 and treating our front-line officers with respect.”Though no details have been released, some police experts are expressing concerns about the Ford government halting or altering hard-fought changes — tinkering with legislation meant to work as a whole.“I think that many people including myself feel that, although there are certain parts of it that ar ...


 
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