. >> i am glad you are supporting the legislation we proposed around david chen and small- business owners in downtown toronto. you have not fulfilled any of your commitments. he promised 2500 more police officers. that promise was not kept. policing is very important if we are to reduce crime levels. we do need prosecution in key areas. we would like to see carjacking and home invasions and the recording of a young person in a gang to be an offense. we have to focus on prevention. you have to prevent the crimes from taking place if you are going to reduce crime levels where we want to. that means strong support for programs for young people. if we give young people positive choice after school so that when a trouble maker tries to tempt them into a life of crime, instead they have something very positive to do. all over the country there are people working hard on these programs. it is fantastic. not all of them can manage to access these programs through tax credits and that kind of thing. we have to support the vulnerable neighborhoods. that has been a failure on this issue. >> i would

ask you about this because it fits with what we're talking about from january of this year with david chenwriting it. "hands-on job as a deputy taking lumps." this is all about the snow. "on monday, most new yorkers will get their first look at the still obscure deputy mayor -- you were obscure in january -- when he is called before the city council to explain what went wrong during the blizzard, but some current and former city officials are already suggesting that mr. goldsmith, who was the mayor of indianapolis in the 1990s until last year had never lived or worked in new york is the wrong man for this high pressured position." his immediate predecessor, edward skylar, was so maniacal about making the city work. he was called, quote/unquote, 'batman' and once tackled a would-be mugger in midtown manhattan." when you read that, is it one of those things you say, "i -- they'll never accept me because i did -- i'm not from here"? >> well, ed was a great deputy mayor and he's younger than i am. i'm not tackling any would-be muggers. i don't think i'm -- i don't think i could catch them actu

we want to be able to give store owners like david chen the right to defend themselves without beingcharged. these are bills sitting before parliament, that parliament will not pass. i'm hoping when a re-elected conservative government gets back, what we will do is package these bills together and get them passed. this is what canadians expect us to do, take crime seriously and have punishments that fit the crime. >> i'm glad you're supporting the legislation we proposed around david chen and in that situation, small business owner in downtown toronto. but i think the problem here is you haven't fulfilled many of your commitments. you promised there would be 2,500 more police officers for community policing but that promise was simply not kept. and policing is very important if we're going to reduce crime levels that len was talking about. similarly, we need prosecution in certain key areas. we would like to see carjacking and home invasions and the recruiting of a young person into a gang to be an offense. but most of all, we've got to focus on prevention in the first place. you've