Fatality Fallout

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Fatality Fallout

It didn’t take long for the political guns to be drawn over the mass murders near London.

Opposition critics are accusing the Liberals at Queen’s Park of not doing enough to fight organized crime. N.D.P. maverick Peter Kormos charges the McGuinty Grits have been too pre-occupied with battling grow ops and muzzling dogs to properly do their jobs.

"The McGuinty government has focused on pot and pitbulls with a leisured demeanour that would make a stage magician jealous," he rails. "It has failed to focus on the real issue, which is an intense level of highly organized criminal groups -- bikers and others -- that are regrettably so notoriously well known to the general public.

"The Tories aren't silent on the issue, either. They accuse the government of not adequately funding the fight against gang activity.

Correctional Services Minister Monte Kwinter insists the government won’t comment on the probe until more is known about what really happened and why. But he notes the Liberals have doled out money to hire 1,000 new police officers, with 150 charged with investigating organized crime.

That response doesn’t impress P.C. leader John Tory.

“In the end only five percent of those officers were allocated to an already thinly stretched O.P.P.,” he complains.

He accuses the government of only worrying about vote rich Toronto’s gun crimes situation and not the rest of the province.

Kwinter was incensed by the accusation.

“Where were you last week on this question?” he demands. “It's only because of what happened this weekend you're up there trying to get capital out of it.”

He notes cracking gangs takes time and that the government is making progress. “To suggest other than that,” he rages, “is irresponsible.”