Yes, it is, Mr. Kellway.
My nephew is the chief of police on the southern portion of Akwesasne. I was on the police commission for two terms prior to being elected chief.
What I see in this bill is you're going to criminalize the individual. You're going to put officer safety as a priority.... You're going to increase the police pursuits because of this.
As of right now, if you stop a truckload of cigarettes the guy says he can pay the fine. If you're going to criminalize this and the sentence is two years in prison, they're not going to stop and you're going to have police pursuits throughout Akwesasne. We went through this before. A person was involved in this several years ago, and it included our police officers, and two innocent people burned to death in their car after this idiot ran into them.
This is what's going to happen.