OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government will move swiftly to lock up dangerous cons for longer jail terms and end Canada's cushy "Club Fed" prison system.

Sketching out plans for a sweeping overhaul of the criminal justice system, Harper told the Canadian Professional Police Association (CPPA) yesterday he will also shelve Liberal plans to decriminalize marijuana and will crack down on drug dealers, pot grow-ops and violent offenders.

A tighter parole system will remove statutory release provisions that allow most criminals to walk free after serving two-thirds of their sentence.

"If we are to protect our Canadian way of life, we need to crack down on gun, gang and drug crime," he said. "Canadians are tired of talk. They want action and they want it now."

Justice Minister Vic Toews confirmed the government will also follow through with a campaign pledge to kill the gun registry and free up more cash for frontline police officers.

Admitting there are "complicating issues" associated with repealing the registry, he hopes to rally a "working majority" of support from Liberal, NDP and Bloc Quebecois ranks to abolish it through legislation in Parliament.

The Conservative crime-busting plan, which will be dribbled out piecemeal instead of as an omnibus bill, also pushes mandatory minimum sentences for drug and gun offences and eliminates house arrest for violent or repeat offenders.

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