Mr. Garfield Dunlop (Simcoe North): I rise today to condemn the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services for his completely inaccurate comments yesterday in response to my question on court security. The minister had the gall to stand in this House yesterday to accuse our party of downloading court security to municipalities when we were in power.

Nothing could be further from the truth. On January 1, 1990, court security was formally downloaded from the province to the municipality in which the court is located by none other than the Liberal government of David Peterson. In fact, Minister Kwinter sat at the cabinet table during this time and did absolutely nothing to stop this transfer of responsibility.

I can assure the minister that the policing community is not fooled by these Liberal games. The minister has sat on the Thomas report on court security since he assumed his current cabinet position. Instead of acting on this report, which includes several options for sharing court security costs, he has chosen to take any possibility of any funding for court security completely off the table.

I would respectfully request that in the future the minister get his facts straight before attempting to rewrite the history books on the solid Progressive Conservative record on policing in Ontario.

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