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Pierre Poilievre – End Extortion and Protect Communities

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News release from Conservative Party Communications

The Hon. Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the Official Opposition, announced an action plan on shootings and extortions to stem the tide of violence and intimidation terrorizing communities across Canada’s major urban centres.

Crime and chaos are spreading. Since the Liberals took power, violent crime is up 54%. Sexual assaults up 75%. Extortion has skyrocketed by 330% across Canada. From coast to coast, lax Liberal laws have Canadians living in fear.

Extortion has exploded into one of the fastest-growing crimes in Canada. Police have reported waves of threats against small business owners, especially in communities like Brampton, Surrey, Vancouver and Calgary. Families are shot at, fire bombed and intimidated while the Liberals do nothing.

Poilievre launched the Conservative action plan to end extortion and restore safe streets:

  1. Ban the Bishnoi Gang – List one of the major extortion groups, the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, as a terrorist entity, giving police and prosecutors stronger tools to dismantle this violent, transnational extortion network threatening Canadians.
  2. Stop Extortion – Restore and strengthen mandatory jail time so extortionists face real consequences: a minimum of 3 years for all extortion; 4 years if it involves a gun, and 5 years when tied to organized crime. Arson should count as an aggravating factor in sentencing. These common-sense measures are the same ones blocked by this Liberal government in the Conservative Protection Against Extortion plan.
  3. Jail not Bail – Repeal Liberal catch-and-release laws C-5 and C-75, keep violent offenders locked behind bars and end the revolving door justice system.

Catch-and-release bail laws like Liberal Bill C-75 force judges to apply a “principle of restraint” that puts repeat violent offenders back on the streets. The result? Criminals with long rap sheets are free to reoffend while awaiting trial. Liberal Bill C-5 repealed mandatory jail time for serious gun crimes, including extortion with a firearm.

Conservatives have long fought to protect Canadians from illegal intimidation and threats. That is why, over a year ago, Deputy Leader Tim Uppal introduced Bill C-381, the Protection Against Extortion Act. The Bill would have delivered stricter mandatory minimums for extortion – up to five years if the crime was linked to a criminal organization – and treated arson as an aggravating factor. Shamefully, the Liberals voted it down and left Canadians stranded, without the protection they desperately need.

“The cause of this crime wave is clear: a government that sides with criminals instead of communities,” said Poilievre. “This Liberal government dismantled tough laws, gutted jail sentences, and let gangs and extortionists rule our streets.”

“Together with my colleagues, we stand ready to help the Prime Minister to build a Canada that is safe, strong, secure and self-reliant,” said Poilievre. “That’s why I am calling on the government to adopt our Conservative plan to stop crime, end extortion, and protect our families and businesses.”

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Published on October 11, 2025

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Minister Gary Anandasangaree said his priorities are getting a new border bill passed and tackling illegal immigration.

Canada’s Public Safety Minister admitted that he has yet to meet with anyone from 123 Christian, mostly Catholic, churches that have been either reduced to ashes or seriously vandalized over the past four years.

Speaking recently before a committee to discuss upcoming fall bills, Minister Gary Anandasangaree was grilled by opposition Conservative MPs on a host of issues from public safety and illegal migrants to church arsons.

He said his priorities are getting a new border Bill C-12 passed while tackling illegal immigration but made no specific mention of tackling the rise of Christian hate in Canada.

Asked by Conservative MP Dane Lloyd about whether he met with any of the 123 and counting church congregations, he replied that he has not, but he claimed he has met with “many members of different church and faith groups.”

“You said you met with synagogues and mosques, which I do appreciate,” noted Lloyd, adding, “Those communities need your support, Minister, but Christian communities also need your support.”

“Why have you not met with any of those communities?” he asked.

Anandasangaree said he was “concerned (about) every incidence of hate at any place, including churches,” but stopped short of promising anything.

He was also asked about allegations that a government employee who works on a local military base near Montreal was the one responsible for throwing smoke bombs into a church service this summer.

Anandasangaree said he is “concerned” about these allegations but did not add any other context.

Canadian Conservative pro-life and pro-family MP Leslyn Lewis called out the hypocrisy of a new Liberal “hate” speech bill recently for being silent regarding rising “Christian hate,” because it does not even mention church arson.

Hate-motivated attacks against Christians are on the rise in Canada. In 2021 and 2022, the mainstream media ran with inflammatory and dubious claims that hundreds of children were buried and disregarded by Catholic priests and nuns who ran some Canadian residential schools. The reality is, after four years, there have been no mass graves discovered at residential schools.

However, as the claims went unfounded, since the spring of 2021, over 120 churches, most of them Catholic, many of them on indigenous lands that serve the local population, have been burned to the ground, vandalized, or defiled in Canada.

The Canadian media has been rather silent on the church burnings.

The government-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) went as far as blaming the fact that it has not covered the arson attacks much on “staffing shortage.

Indeed, the absence of reports about church burnings was uncovered by former CRTC chair Peter Menzies, who could not find any information on the recent arson attack against All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox in Bellis, Alberta.

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Florida teens credited for averting school shooting plot in Washington state

Published on October 10, 2025

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Two teenage boys in Florida are being called heroes for their response to a five-second TikTok video last month that may well have averted disaster all the way across the country.

The video, which has since been taken down, reportedly showed plans for a mass school shooting at Kamiakin High School in Kennewick, Wash.

“The contents of the TikTok were a map of a high school, and it had classrooms that were identified and labeled as targets,” said Kennewick School Board member Brittany Gledhill in a Thursday interview with The Center Square. “It had other classrooms that were labeled as potential targets. It had labeled exits, and it had the security department of the school listed as a potential threat.”

The map in the video did not indicate the location or name of the school.

“But this young man who lives in Florida decided to show it to a brother, and then together they decided that they needed to tell the authorities,” Gledhill said.

She explained that local authorities in Florida contacted the FBI, and within hours, the investigation was underway to determine the TikTok poster’s location.

That was September 19, a Friday.

“We got involved on Sunday, so that we were able to sweep the campus and provide a secure and safe environment for our students and staff, and that was in conjunction with KPD, or Kennewick police department,” said Kennewick School District Superintendent Lance Hansen.

At that point, the suspect, a 14-year-old Kamiakin High School freshman, was already in custody.

According to the Tri-City Herald, the FBI was able to match the layout and room numbers shown in the TikTok video to Kamiakin High School, and at that point, the FBI contacted the internet provider about the IP address linked to the account.

Officials were able to narrow down the location to a few dozen potential residences in Kennewick, and according to the Herald, law enforcement further narrowed the list based on the times the TikTok account was active.

The address was further narrowed to the boy’s home, where he reportedly lived with his grandparents, and more than two dozen firearms were located.

Hansen told The Center Square that officials believe the young man was most likely to carry out his plan had the boys in Florida not done the right thing.

“It was smart and courageous at the same time, and I think that they can be an example or model for others who may see something and think it’s not a big deal. Just the thought that they would recognize this isn’t right and have the courage to speak up … that’s really where I believe the story is,” Hansen said.

Gledhill said the school board, administration and staff members from Kamiakin High School are putting together a gift basket and thank-you notes for the boys in Florida who reported the TikTok post to authorities.

“We averted a terrible tragedy because of these two young men,” she said. “This is my home high school, and I have two of my own children [who] go to that school.”

Hansen said the school community is still reeling from what could have happened, but is also trying to find a lesson in it.

“In times where information can flow so quickly and there’s some level of anonymity that is created in ways that we communicate, like with social media, it sometimes creates some boldness in youth, which I think is a false positive,” he said. “I mean, there are benefits to the way that we communicate, and there [are] some unintended consequences of that. Having said that, as I reminded our parents, every person who’s on a campus is responsible for the safety of the campus. That’s students, staff, whoever is there. So that model … needs to be applied for everything.”

Given that the accused is 14, he is being charged as a juvenile. Assuming he pleads guilty or is convicted, he could only be confined until he turns 21.

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