ALBERTA SOCIAL CREDIT PARTY

3. Justice

3.1 Funding of Courts and Police Enforcement: The Alberta Social Credit Government would institute a program whereby spending on police and courts will be increased to make apprehension and conviction more certain.The Alberta Social Credit Government would institute a program of community policing, which would put more police officers on the street instead of behind desks

3.2 Addiction Rehabilitation: The Alberta Social Credit Government would increase spending on drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs both inside and outside correctional centres.

3.3 Correctional Sentences: The Alberta Social Credit Government would establish minimum and significantly longer sentences for felons convicted of crimes related to drugs or violence. Inmates would be required to serve all or the majority of their sentence in a correctional centre. Privileges and early release would be dependent on completion of minimum educational, vocational, and personal development courses and achievement of minimum standards

3.4 Sentencing/Parole Inquiry: The Alberta Social Credit Government would provide government funding for a public inquiry into the sentencing and parole systems.

3.5 Drugs and Smoking in Correctional Centres: The Alberta Social Credit Government will take strong measures to sharply curtail the consumption of both licit and illicit drugs inside Alberta's correctional centers, and will enforce prohibitions on smoking of all materials within Alberta's jails.

3.6 Firearm Rights: An Alberta Social Credit government will pass legislation to ensure that Alberta residents have the right to responsible ownership, enjoyment, and use of firearms. The Alberta Social Credit Party opposes any law which will infringe upon the cultural and historical rights to use firearms for the purposes of gun collection, recreation, agriculture, hunting, and trapping.
Firearms are property and under Clause 92.13 of The Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1982, falls within the "Exclusive Powers of Provincial Legislatures." Therefore, the Alberta Social Credit Party would challenge all federally sponsored firearms control legislation as being unconstitutional and will, if necessary, use the "notwithstanding clause" to refuse to enforce any federal law which infringes on the constitutional rights of Alberta residents.

3.7 Victim Compensation: The Alberta Social Credit Government would institute victim's rights to compensation from convicted persons.

3.8 Non-Criminal Arbitration: The Alberta Social Credit Government would institute legally enforceable arbitration between all parties in a legal dispute to settle non-criminal actions.

4. Trade and Economy