Alberta Conservatives pushing for passing of Wynn’s Law

With Bill S-217 in the secondreading stage in the House of Commons, Conservatives are pushing for the law to receive final approval.

Known as Wynn’s Law for slain St. Albert RCMP Const. David Wynn, the bill would make criminal history disclosure mandatory for bail applicants.

The bill’s sponsor, Conservative St. Albert-Edmonton MP Michael Cooper, sent out a statement from provincial PC leadership candidate Jonathan Denis urging the legislation to pass.

“I watched the video of Constable Wynn being shot and killed — an image that haunts me to this day,” said Denis, who was the Alberta minister of justice and solicitor general at the time.

Wynn was shot and killed outside the Apex Casino in St. Albert on Jan. 17, 2015 by Shawn Rehn. The man had several outstanding warrants and was out on bail when he shot Wynn and his partner before turning the gun on himself.

While the Senate passed the bill, it was rejected in January by federal Justice Minister Jody WilsonRaybould.

The federal law would complement provincial recommendations from a review released in April 2016, which included 31 recommendations for changes that would close the loophole in the federal Criminal Code.

Denis accused the federal Liberal

I watched the video of Constable Wynn being shot and killed — an image that haunts me to this day.

government of playing partisan politics in the rejection of the bill.

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked at a town hall in Saskatoon last month why the justice minister shut the bill down, he said he was not familiar with the bill and promised he would get the minister to explain her decision.