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Mayor Ford to discuss Toronto guns and gangs problem with PM Harper
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/mayor-ford-to-discuss-toronto-guns-and-gangs-problem-with-pm-harper-163513686.htmlTORONTO - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is looking to the federal government for help with the city's guns and gangs problem after getting some assistance from the Ontario government.
Premier Dalton McGuinty emerged from a meeting with Ford on Monday to announce $12.5 million a year in permanent funding for anti-violence strategies, including $5 million for Toronto.
Ford says he'll make a similar request for stable federal funding when he meets Prime Minister Stephen Harper today in Toronto.
But McGuinty says in fairness, the city of Toronto also has to find money to help fight its gun problem.
Premier Dalton McGuinty emerged from a meeting with Ford on Monday to announce $12.5 million a year in permanent funding for anti-violence strategies, including $5 million for Toronto.
Ford says he'll make a similar request for stable federal funding when he meets Prime Minister Stephen Harper today in Toronto.
But McGuinty says in fairness, the city of Toronto also has to find money to help fight its gun problem.
Based on the Conservative track record, I predict that they will make it even easier to buy guns and ammo, blame brown people and crack down on immigration, cut anti-poverty programs, and build more prisons. Also fire a bunch of public servants and defund the CBC, just for kicks. What I'm saying is that I think Ford and Harper are absolutely not the people who should be trying to solve these problems - their ideology makes them incapable of actually addressing it effectively.
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