leaping backwards
"'Our values are under attack," Stephen Harper declared Saturday in Vancouver. The enemies are drugs, he said, and a federal government that has been far too soft in battling the scourge on the streets. "Some people want to deal with the problem by simply surrendering," Mr. Harper fumed, but a Conservative government would wage war."
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"There would be no more talk of reforming the marijuana laws, Mr. Harper promised, not even the Liberals' tepid plan for decriminalization. Vancouver's safe-injection site would be closed because taxpayers' money should "not be used to fund drug use." Presumably that would also mean the end of the study of the medical prescription of heroin. There would be a new, undefined "drug prevention strategy focused on youth." But most importantly, a Conservative government would "get tough" on dealers by introducing "mandatory minimum prison sentences of at least two years" if they import, export, traffic or produce heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine or large amounts of marijuana."
Dan Gardner, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Wednesday, December 07, 2005
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=f339e8fb-c6f8-493f-b907-c7a95b9bf48a
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"There would be no more talk of reforming the marijuana laws, Mr. Harper promised, not even the Liberals' tepid plan for decriminalization. Vancouver's safe-injection site would be closed because taxpayers' money should "not be used to fund drug use." Presumably that would also mean the end of the study of the medical prescription of heroin. There would be a new, undefined "drug prevention strategy focused on youth." But most importantly, a Conservative government would "get tough" on dealers by introducing "mandatory minimum prison sentences of at least two years" if they import, export, traffic or produce heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine or large amounts of marijuana."
Dan Gardner, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Wednesday, December 07, 2005
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=f339e8fb-c6f8-493f-b907-c7a95b9bf48a