Windsor is looking to become the 66th Canadian city or town to be officially designated as a safe community.
Parachute Canada is a not-for-profit organization which, according to its website, is dedicated to preventing injuries and saving lives. It oversees the national safe community initiative.
Executive Director of the Safety Village Michael Lucier says Parachute has a list of criteria he feels Windsor can meet. "With our regular crime prevention programs that we've been working on, we've been working a lot with Safe City Brampton and Safe City Mississauga, and a lot of our projects fall in line with what they've been doing. It just became a natural process that we should try to seek recognition for what we've been doing."
Officials from Parachute Canada will visit Windsor this July to do a community scan of what needs to be done in terms of injury prevention, crime prevention and fire prevention. The hope is to have the city designated by the end of the year.
Mayor Drew Dilkens thinks the classification could assist tourism and post-secondary education recruitment in Windsor.
