Transition Montréal leader and mayoral candidate Craig Sauvé unveiled his party’s public safety plan on Thursday morning.

“The idea is to make Montreal a safer, more secure, more healthy city based on human rights, based on attacking the true causes of criminality,” said Sauvé.

The party says the current Plante administration has invested too heavily in police reaction and not enough in prevention.

According to Transition Montréal between 2019 and 2023, an additional envelope of $40 million went annually to overtime. If elected the party says it wants to implement a tight control of overtime in order to find necessary funds that can finance prevention.

“Every dollar that’s invested in crime prevention, it’s been shown. We will get savings of probably $4, $5 down the line, because we’re

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