THE CRIME CRACKDOWN GAME PLAN

Other crime-crackdown measures forwarded yesterday by the Conservative
Party include:

- - Filling 1,000 vacant RCMP positions and financially helping cities
hire 2,500 new police officers.

- - Arming border guards and ensuring they never work
alone.

- - Hunting down 40,000 people under deportation order in Canada,
focusing first on those convicted of serious offences.

- - Deploying face recognition and biometric technology at border
crossings.

- - Raising the age of sexual consent from the current 14 to
16.

- - Making it easier for 14-year-olds charged with serious offences to
be tried as adults.

- - Forcing sex offenders to give DNA samples to a new national
registry.

- - Instituting mandatory prison times for sex crimes and serious drug
offences.

- - Establishing a national victims' ombudsman office.

- - Providing $10 million per year to help victims appear at parole
hearings.

- - Preventing the decriminalization of marijuana.

- - Setting up a judicial inquiry of the Air India bombings.