Mr. Spratt, picking up again from the task force, another recommendation was that offences with respect to exceeding the possession limit should be dealt with through graduated administrative penalties such as tickets, seizures, and fines, except where there was evidence of intent to traffic.
I want to focus on the graduated administrative penalties. There's a 14-year maximum that's conceivably applied to a 19-year-old selling marijuana to a 17-year-old. I understand the courts will use discretion, but it's theoretically possible. That's far in excess of what would happen to a 19-year-old giving a cigarette to a 17-year old, or a 19-year-old bootlegging alcohol to a 17-year-old. In fact, the 14-year maximum is equivalent to leaving Canada for the purposes of committing terrorism or producing child pornography.
Is that an example of a proportional offence? Do you think that's justified under this legislation?