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Randall Garrison

Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
NDP

Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke
British Columbia
Voting Attendance: 66%
Expenses Last Quarter: $148,586.11

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Context: House Hansard - 219 - Sep/18/23

Sep/18/23 1:49:40 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-48

Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for her concern about the lack of services in pretrial detention because it is a very important part of public safety. I am no expert on the internal workings of the Conservative Party, but it does seem peculiar when its leader, who has said that he was prepared to get this done in a day, no longer seems prepared to do that.

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Context: House Hansard - 200 - May/18/23

Mr. Randall Garrison (Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP)

May/18/23 5:16:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Brampton Centre for his quite measured speech on what is an unmeasured or moderate resolution from the Conservatives. I wonder if he agrees with me on something. The Conservatives seem to be conflating safe supply with new addictions and it is certainly not the case. Safe supply is a way of keeping those who are already suffering from addictions, suffering from substance use problems, alive until we can get them into treatment and we can get them out of the situations that have led to their dire circumstances. Does he agree with me that safe supply is certainly essential to preventing loss of life in our communities?

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Context: House Hansard - 88 - Jun/14/22

Mr. Randall Garrison (Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP)

Jun/14/22 11:16:05 a.m.
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Re: Bill C-5

Madam Speaker, I take particular exception to the remarks by the previous member that completely distort what is going on in Bill C-5. They distort not only what is going on in Bill C-5, but the position of police in Canada on the bill. Both the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and the National Police Federation, which represents RCMP officers, appeared in committee and supported this bill. What is going on here by Conservatives is an attempt to distort the actual impacts of the bill and create some crisis in public safety when, in fact, the bill would do exactly the opposite.

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Context: House Hansard - 88 - Jun/14/22

Mr. Randall Garrison (Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP)

Jun/14/22 10:47:07 a.m.
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Re: Bill C-5

Madam Speaker, I want to thank the parliamentary secretary for the good work that we managed to do together at committee to improve the bill. We have just seen a couple of examples from the Conservatives and the Bloc of the attempt to somehow say that Bill C-5 threatens public safety. I wonder if the parliamentary secretary could talk about the actual evidence we heard at committee on the impact of mandatory minimum sentences and how their impact, if anything, actually improves public safety by eliminating them.

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Context: House Hansard - 79 - Jun/1/22

Mr. Randall Garrison (Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP)

Jun/1/22 5:30:25 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-5

Madam Speaker, I know there is a lot of shared ground here in the House of Commons on wanting to make communities safer. That is a goal we all share, but we share a difference of opinion on how best to do that. I am always disappointed when I hear the Conservatives implying that somehow mandatory minimums create safer communities, when all the research and all the evidence show that this is simply not true. I guess I am hoping the member could acknowledge that we have a difference of opinion about how best to protect communities. It is not that some of us care about communities more than others.

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