OTTAWA - The Liberal government will introduce tougher bail and sentencing standards for violent crime in a bill being introduced next week, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday.

The legislation will make bail more difficult to get for a half-dozen violent and organized crime offences, Carney told a press conference in Etobicoke, Ont.

Those offences include violent auto theft, break and enter, human trafficking, assault and sexual assault, and extortion.

"These changes will keep violent repeat offenders of these crimes off our streets and out of our communities," Carney said.

The bill will allow for consecutive sentences for violent and repeat offenders, so that multiple sentences can’t be served at the same time. Carney said that means an offender with a seven-year sentence and a

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