Tories plan get-tough national drug strategy
Last Updated: Saturday, September 29, 2007 | 9:24 PM ET
The Canadian Press
Health Minister Tony Clement will announce the Conservative government’s anti-drug strategy this week with a stark warning: “The party’s over” for illicit drug users.
“In the next few days, we’re going to be back in the business of an anti-drug strategy,” Clement told The Canadian Press. “In that sense, the party’s over.”
Shortly after taking office early last year, the Conservatives decided not to go ahead with a Liberal bill to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana.
Since then, the number of people arrested for smoking pot has jumped dramatically in several Canadian cities, in some cases jumping by more than one third.
Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Halifax all reported increases of between 20 and 50 per cent in 2006 of arrests for possession of cannabis, compared with the previous year.
As a result thousands of people were charged with an act that, under the previous Liberal government, was on the verge of being decriminalized.
Cool. Maybe my Canadian buddies I miss so much will come back to Taiwan now.
I’ve been totally into the “Trailer Park Boys” TV show recently. Sorry, this reference may not mean as much to the uninitiated…
…but I can hear it now–Lahey: “We’re tightening a shit-clamp, Randy. These guys and their weed are gonna get squeezed.”
By the way, no one ever gets busted on “Trailer Park Boys” for weed. It’s always for shooting guns, which I can’t believe happens that often in Halifax…
[quote=“Buzzardo”]I’ve been totally into the “Trailer Park Boys” TV show recently. Sorry, this reference may not mean as much to the uninitiated…
…but I can hear it now–Lahey: “We’re tightening a shit-clamp, Randy. These guys and their weed are gonna get squeezed.”
By the way, no one ever gets busted on “Trailer Park Boys” for weed. It’s always for shooting guns, which I can’t believe happens that often in Halifax…[/quote]
If you aren’t from CanaDUH, then you’d be amazed at how true to life that show can be. Depending on where you hail from.
Indeed. A foolish move too as many were concerned during the last election that the new Tories were too beholden to the Christianists of the Reform side and would start to push unwanted social reforms on the country, a la Bush Republicans. No, no we were assured. Nothing to worry about there.
Now, the cat is out of the bag. Give these guys a majority government and you know what they will try.
Well, good to see their true colors when they are not yet strong enough to do lasting damage. Throw the reformists out.
Not so foolish if they have a couple of years to recover. After being very hard on the poplace, almost anything they do after that will seem acceptable. This tactic comes straight from Machiavelli’s book The Prince…