The Alberta government is adopting a zero-tolerance stance on crime, implementing new measures aimed at addressing repeat violent offenders.
The measures announced at a Sept. 11 news conference in downtown Edmonton include new targeted prosecution units set up in the province’s major urban centres and a stricter bail protocol. Minister of public safety and emergency service and former police officer Mike Ellis said the “absence of needed bail reform from the federal government” means the province will be taking its own “zero-tolerance approach” to crime.
