Public Safety Minister Hopes to Table First Nations Policing Legislation in New Year

Public Safety Minister Hopes to Table First Nations Policing Legislation in New Year
Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino speaks during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 4, 2022. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says he hopes to introduce legislation declaring First Nations policing an essential service in the new year.
In a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, Mendicino said the prospective law is under development with input from indigenous stakeholders and communities, who he said deserve “the same quality of policing” as non-indigenous communities.