Chandigarh, Feb. 5 -- Punjab-origin Alberta's minister for indigenous relations Rajan Sawhney, 54, on Wednesday said that the Canadian government are aware of the escalation of gangsters' activities and the federal dispensation is working on the issue.

"In Alberta, we have asked sheriffs to deal with the eventualities caused by the gangsters for the protection of the people," Sawhney said while talking to the media during her visit to Chandigarh University in Gharuan.

Sawhney, whose family hails from a Malian village near Phagwara, said that the South Asian students in Canada are law-abiding, and the news originating about chaos and unlawful incidents is like a drop in the ocean.

"All of those who have come to Canada are serious in the...