Last night Catherine Jones-Standring the current principal of Ruth Thompson Middle School at 5605 Freshwater Drive, Mississauga graciously welcome residences of Mississauga to her school for the Crime & Justice Town Hall Meeting with Minister of Justice Rob Nicholson. SafeCity Mississauga and co sponsored Member of Parliament Bob Decherd arranged the town hall meeting. Numerous citizen groups interested in crime prevention attended the meeting to hear from the Minister what Ottawa is doing to curbed crimes. The meeting was chair by Mr. Bratt Butt Chairman of Safecity Mississauga with the Hon Mr. Rob Nicholson, Minister of Justice, Mr. Bob Dechert, MP for Mississauga-Erindale, Ms Sue McFadden Region of Peel Councillor for ward 10 and Peel Regional Police Chief Mike Metcalf as panel. The Minister of Justice spoke about the controversial "Faint Hope Clause", the popular name for Section 745.6 of the Criminal Code of Canada and the pain victims suffer whenever a comvited criminal use it to escape the jaws of justice. He also spoke about his own personal experience with credit card frauds and his proposal to the house of common to get tough with convited criminals. Mayor Hazel McCallion who was busy that night on another community event was able to joint the panel mid way thru the meeting.
More photos from TownHall meeting:- http://picasaweb.google.com/tee.safecity/CrimeJusticeTownHallMeetingWithMinisterOfJusticeRobNicholson#
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