Gary Anandasangaree

He strongly condemned the recent synagogue shootings, said during a tour that gunshots were visible through three layers of the building, and described the incidents as forms of antisemitism, framing them as unacceptable acts of hate.

As Public Safety Minister, Gary Anandasangaree says Canada will establish a lawful access regime to give police and intelligence agencies expanded search powers, and he intends to table or refine new lawful access legislation within weeks to make it reality in Canada.

Gary Anandasangaree supports funding community-based prevention programs to steer Muslim youth away from gang involvement and criminal activity, saying such projects provide support so youth can make safer, healthier choices and that this funding is important nationwide.

Anandasangaree supports keeping the RCMP in front-line, day-to-day policing while prioritizing reform and strengthening the federal policing mandate and resources; he says the government can 'do both' and will 'meet the provinces where they're at' during contract renewals.

Gary Anandasangaree praised CBSA and RCMP efforts against drug trafficking, stating large seizures prevent illegal drugs from reaching communities, and that their work secures borders, dismantles international crime networks, and keeps Canadians safe.

He supports the federal firearms buyback compensation program as a crime-prevention measure, arguing logistical challenges can be managed with mobile collection units and off-duty or retired officers, and insisting the program can be implemented without disrupting police operations.

Gary Anandasangaree said the federal government intends to roll out a full buyback program for firearms banned since 2020 and expects greater uptake when it is fully implemented, indicating support for proceeding with the federal buyback initiative.

Anandasangaree supports the federal assault-weapons buyback initiative, calling the Cape Breton pilot successful for testing registration and recovery capabilities, saying issues were corrected and he expects a full national rollout with much greater uptake soon.

Gary Anandasangaree says he will work closely with the Office of the Correctional Investigator to address issues raised in the ombudsman's report, signaling engagement with concerns about inmate mental-health care and correctional-system practices without endorsing cancellation of the new facility.

Gary Anandasangaree supports listing the Bishnoi Gang as a terrorist entity to strengthen crime prevention, arguing the designation provides more powerful and effective tools for law enforcement to confront, stop their terror, violence and intimidation, and protect communities.

Anandasangaree supports the government's gun buyback program and says he has long supported removing guns from streets, while acknowledging municipal police lack resources to enforce turn-ins. He called his joking offer to compensate an owner 'wrong' and not serious.

Voting Yea means supporting reforms to reduce mandatory minimums and increase judicial discretion in sentencing, aiming to make punishments more proportionate and flexible.

Voting Yea means supporting the set of statutory changes to modernize and recalibrate offences and sentencing provisions in the Criminal Code.

Voting Yea means supporting expanded use of alternative, community-based sentences and reducing reliance on incarceration for certain offences.

Voting Yea means supporting moves away from criminalization for simple possession toward diversion and non-punitive responses focused on health and social supports.

Voting Yea means endorsing a harm-reduction, public-health approach to substance use and supporting policies that reduce criminalization and stigma.

Support applying lawful interception powers to investigate foreign interference offences

Support strengthening sabotage laws to protect essential infrastructure from harmful acts

Support federal appropriations for police funding and public safety programs

Support providing the Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada with the authorized funding for tribunal operations

Voting Yea means supporting additional funding for court administration to maintain or improve court operations and address operational pressures.

Support creation of new independent civilian oversight body for police and border officers

Support updating evidentiary rules to allow Commission proceedings to access necessary evidence

Voting Yea means supporting mandatory beneficial ownership disclosure and public availability of key ownership information to strengthen detection and prevention of criminal misuse of corporations (e.g., money laundering, illicit finance), and enable co-operation with provincial registries.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger criminal and administrative penalties and enforcement authority to ensure compliance with beneficial ownership rules and deter concealment of ownership tied to criminal activity.

Support appropriations for public safety programs and police funding.

Support authorizing program funding for administrative tribunal operations.

Voting Yea means supporting a targeted change to the Criminal Code that creates a legal pathway for certain activities that might otherwise be treated as terrorist‑financing offences, with ministerial oversight and safeguards.

Support designating federal security staff as public officers

Support requiring custody or disposal of firearms during court referrals

Support expanding interception scope for weapons-related investigations

Support increasing maximum penalties for serious weapons offences

Support criminalizing harmful firearm-related digital information

Support enabling emergency orders to restrict firearm access for safety

Support classifying certain firearms as prohibited devices

Support restricting licences for those subject to protection orders or domestic violence convictions

Support criminal penalties for modifying magazines to increase capacity

Support coordinated commencement to implement related firearms provisions effectively

Supports simultaneous bilingual publication of precedential federal decisions

Voting Yea means supporting a legal change to require judges to consider electronic monitoring as a release condition in intimate-partner violence cases, prioritizing victim safety in bail decisions and expanding explicit factors for pre-trial release.

Voting Yea means supporting mandatory judicial continuing education on intimate-partner violence, coercive control, sexual assault law, and related social context to improve judicial responses and fairness in such cases.

Support strengthening criminal penalties to deter and address deliberate non-compliance with new tax rules

Voting Yea means supporting formal authorization of the supplementary appropriations and enabling the federal government to legally spend the listed amounts for 2022–23 as set out in the Supplementary Estimates (A).

Voting Yea means supporting a statutory increase in GST/HST credit amounts and the creation of deemed-payment mechanisms to deliver larger and periodic GSTC transfers to eligible low- and modest-income individuals and families (including shared-custody parent adjustments).

Voting Yea means supporting increased federal spending/transfers to provide targeted cost-of-living relief through larger and advance GSTC payments, accepting the fiscal cost to deliver near-term support.

Support government spending package for 2026

Voting Yea means supporting legal protection for Canada's supply management import controls — preventing increases in tariff rate quotas or reductions in over‑quota tariffs for dairy, poultry and eggs to preserve domestic producer protection.

Voting Yea means endorsing the specific spending choices and departmental allocations set out in the Supplementary Estimates (B), allowing those priorities to be funded.

Support government spending package for 2024

Support authority for Schedule 2 multi-year charging and ordering provisions

Support regional economic development funding for Atlantic Canada under the Act

Support appropriations to maintain tax administration and compliance capacity

Support funding for federal employment and benefit programs administered by ESDC

Voting Yea means endorsing the government's specified allocation of supplementary funds and the spending priorities identified in the schedule.

Support clarifying appropriation and funding mechanics for the Commission

Support transitional arrangements to transfer staff and functions smoothly

Support allowing governments to fund regulator expenses for requested work

Support establishing a revenues regime to capture value from submerged land licences

Support expanding worker safety protections to offshore renewable energy workers

Support government spending package for 2023

Voting Yea means supporting measures that strengthen unions' bargaining power and strike effectiveness by banning many forms of replacement labour, enforcing timely dispute resolution, and protecting reinstatement rights.

Voting Yea means supporting tougher enforcement and deterrence to protect workers' rights during strikes/lockouts, including high fines and administrative penalties to discourage use of replacement labour and ensure reinstatement.

Support government spending package for 2025

Voting Yea means supporting legislative tariff and customs changes necessary to implement the FTA and facilitate preferential trade between Canada and Ukraine.

Voting Yea means supporting the appropriation and payment of Canada's share of institutional and administrative costs arising from implementing the FTA.

Voting Yea means supporting a temporary tax incentive to encourage construction of purpose-built rental housing by enhancing the GST rebate, with the aim of increasing rental supply and improving housing affordability.

Voting Yea means supporting a package of fiscal and regulatory actions intended to reduce household costs by stimulating rental supply and curbing anti-competitive/excessive pricing in essential markets.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger competition enforcement tools to prevent excessive and unfair selling prices, intended to protect consumers and address affordability pressures in essential markets (e.g., groceries).

Support funding to ensure CRA can administer and enforce income tax laws.

Support funding for regional economic development and job-creation programs in Atlantic Canada.

Support appropriations enabling delivery of employment supports and benefits.

Voting Yea means supporting targeted supplementary spending to support federal housing measures administered through CMHC, enabling reimbursements and program expenditures identified in the Supplementary Estimates.

Voting Yea means supporting the federal prioritization of ongoing public spending to create and sustain a Canada-wide early learning and child care system and the use of federal funds to achieve accessibility, affordability and quality targets.

Voting Yea means supporting federal policy that prioritizes improving labor conditions, recruitment and retention in the early childhood education workforce as part of child care reform.

Support government spending package for 2023

Supports central oversight by Treasury Board for official-languages policy and compliance

Supports public reporting and employee information on language compliance

Supports statutory language protections for employees and consumers in federally regulated private businesses

Supports establishing complaint and referral mechanisms for workplace language rights

Supports statutory protections for workers who exercise language rights and measures to foster French

Voting Nay means opposing the creation of a targeted tax deduction on grounds that it reduces federal revenue, creates a tax preference for a specific occupational group, may add administrative complexity or be open to misuse, and that employer responsibility or other tax provisions should address the issue.

Voting Nay means opposing using the tax code as a mechanism for worker protection in this instance, arguing that employer responsibility, collective bargaining, or direct labour standards would be the appropriate mechanisms, and that this approach may unevenly benefit specific worker groups.

Voting Yea means supporting measures to protect firefighters as workers — improved prevention, recognition of occupational cancers, standards review, screening and support for worker health.

Voting Yea means supporting the accompanying tax-law changes needed to integrate the Canada disability benefit into the federal tax and transfer framework.

Voting Yea means supporting the creation of a new federal spending program to reduce poverty among working-age persons with disabilities and backing federal prioritization of income supports and related administrative arrangements.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger public mechanisms to resolve commercial disputes between platforms and news organizations to ensure fair outcomes and protect domestic news markets.

Voting Yea means supporting a law that creates a formal bargaining framework to rebalance bargaining power between large digital platforms and news organizations, seeks to secure payment/terms for news content and to sustain Canadian journalism.

Support enhanced reporting to reduce tax avoidance via trusts

Support imposing a temporary surcharge on very large financial groups to recoup excess profits

Support targeted tax credit to boost critical mineral exploration in Canada

Support treating short-term housing dispositions as business income to limit quick speculative gains

Support new tax-advantaged vehicle to help first-time homebuyers save

Support enabling government capitalization and governance for Canada Growth Fund

Support eliminating interest accrual for students and apprentices to reduce borrower burdens

Voting Yea means supporting the government's allocation of additional funds to cover departmental and program expenses set out in the Supplementary Estimates (B) for 2022–23.

Voting Yea means supporting federal action to create jobs and training opportunities tied to green-economy projects in the Prairies.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger legal protection for pension plan beneficiaries and retirees by prioritizing payment of unfunded pension liabilities and requiring transparency on plan solvency; it favors shifting some financial risks back onto employers/insolvency estates and increasing oversight of pension funding.

Voting Yea means approving the enabling tax-law changes needed to implement the benefits and their administration under existing federal tax/excise frameworks.

Voting Yea means supporting direct, targeted federal assistance to reduce household rental cost pressures as a response to rising cost of living.

Voting Yea means supporting a targeted cash-transfer-style response to ease immediate cost-of-living pressures for vulnerable households.

Voting Yea means supporting measures that align artists' labour protections and bargaining frameworks with the updated broadcasting/streaming environment, potentially strengthening creators' negotiating position and access to remuneration.

Support government spending package for 2022

Support providing the agency with the appropriated operating funds and authority to make recoverable CPP/EI expenditures for 2022–23

Support expanding tax relief for northern residents by increasing optional travel expense claims

Support compensating farming businesses in backstop jurisdictions for fuel charge impacts via a refundable credit

Support providing direct financial support to businesses for ventilation upgrades via a refundable tax credit

Support capping the recovery period for CEBA loan amounts, providing certainty for borrowers and administrators

Support clarifying and limiting EI benefit durations for certain seasonal workers to adjust program parameters

Voting Yea means endorsing the specific spending priorities and allocations to the named departments and Crown corporations, allowing these programs and payments to proceed.

Support continued federal wage subsidy to help employers retain employees through May 7, 2022.

Support granting the government limited regulatory flexibility to extend supports until July 2, 2022.

Support independent audit and parliamentary reporting to improve program accountability and effectiveness.

Support aligning budget implementation law with newly enacted labour protections and expenditures.

Support adding statutory leave to protect workers unable to work for COVID-related health reasons.

Support creation of a federal lockdown-specific income support for affected workers.