Prince Albert, Sask., is working on becoming Canada's first violence-free city.

Earlier this year, the city of Regina approved an anti-bullying and public fighting bylaw. Now, Prince Albert city council has taken that a step further by proclaiming a bylaw that forbids any kind of violence.

People caught fighting could be fined up to $700.

According to Mayor Jim Stiglitz, the new civic order is probably the first of its kind in Canada.

"Is it going to end violence in Prince Albert because we proclaim it a violence-free city? No it's not. But it's going to keep it up there as an issue," he said.

Some people in Prince Albert are skeptical, though.

"It won't do anything for me," said Erica Rabbitskin, who was hanging out with friends at a downtown community centre and says she sees violence all around her. "It's just another law that no one will obey. Everybody's going to do it every day."

Prince Albert will hold an anti-violence rally Friday afternoon at which time the bylaw will be proclaimed.

Stiglitz, who's running for another term in the fall municipal elections, hopes to make the gathering an annual event.