The Mayor of Port Coquitlam says Canada doesn't have enough provisions to fight bullying.
This after the RCMP said it wouldn't enforce an anti-bullying bylaw. The force insists the Criminal Code of Canada includes enough provisions to deal with bullying and says the bylaw would infringe upon the code.
Mayor Greg Moore says there have been very few cases of someone being convicted under the Criminal Code for bullying.
"And that's because the Criminal Code is such a high bar to pass. It's really around harassment, it's around physical abuse, it's around racism, those sort of things, but the bar's just way too high, the investigation process is way too high."
Moore says the city was trying to lower that bar, with the idea of a bylaw. But most of all, he says they wanted to get bullies into a program for help.
Last December, City Council asked staff to look into a possible bylaw, after the suicide of 15 year old Amanda Todd a couple of months earlier.
Amanda's mother, Carol Todd says it's disappointing that the bylaw won't go ahead in Port Coquitlam, but says she understands the problems with it.
"And it wasn't going to work because they can't, although the city wanted it , they can't tell the RCMP this is how we want you to do it because the RCMP works federally and they belong to a bigger body that tells them how they should work."
Todd says she and other parents who have lost children recently met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. She's hopeful that changes may be made to the criminal code.