Simcoe North MPp and Conservative Community Safety Critic Garfield Dunlop is calling on the McGuinty Liberals to support the Ontario Chiefs of Polices request for new legislation regarding pawnbrokers and second-hand stores as well as drug endangered children.
For the past several years, the OACP has been asking the McGuinty Liberals to update the existing legislation regarding pawnbrokers.
The current law, which is over 100 years old, is hindering police from doing their job effectively.
New legislation should give the police the ability to return stolen property found in pawnshops and second-hand stores, to victims of theft.
It should also require the use of technology to ensure better record keeping at pawnshops.
To date, the McGuinty Liberals have done nothing in response to this request.
on May 30, 2010 Dunlop introduced Bill 84, Child and Family Services Amendment Act which would amend the Child and Family Services Act by clearly identifying drug endangered children as a new category of children in need of protection.
If passed, this legislation will give police and child protection workers the tools they need to protect children growing up in an environment where illegal drugs are being manufactured.
Dunlop called on the McGuinty Liberals to fulfill both requests of the OACP.
