B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma is calling for Ottawa to tighten bail and sentencing rules as Prime Minister Mark Carney alludes to potential changes to the Criminal Code.

Sharma and B.C. Public Safety Minister Nina Krieger recently met with their federal, provincial and territorial counterparts. Carney has detailed $1.8 billion over four years to increase federal policing capacity across Canada to combat crime, as part of the upcoming federal budget set to be tabled in November.

Sharma said the changes proposed "helps keep repeat property offenders off the street, tightens up rules for intimate partner violence – which is a key aspect of some of the asks we've made; helps with the B.C. Review Board and helps with extortion investigations."

On Oct. 16, Carney said that amending the Cr

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