Extortion is out of control.

February 18, 2026

For years, police have reported countless threats against small business owners, especially in communities like Brampton, Surrey, Vancouver and Calgary. Since 2015, extortion has gone up by a whopping 330%, and Canadians from coast to coast to coast feel unsafe because of the government’s soft-on-crime policies.

People deserve to feel safe in their communities, and in order to make that a reality, we must scrap laws like C-5 and C-75 to end the revolving door justice system and introduce mandatory minimum sentences for the most heinous of crimes.

Larry Brock and Arpan Khanna join me on the Blueprint: Canada’s Conservative Podcast to talk about what’s really driving this wave of organized crime, why the current approach isn’t working, and what a common-sense plan to restore safety looks like.

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