NDP-16 would eliminate lines 19 to 43 on page 24 of the bill. This is where a whole series of mandatory minimums are set out in relation to “cannabis (marijuana)”. This is what we believe to be the arbitrary distinction between numbers of plants, more than five, less than five, 200 attracting certain sentences, and 201 attracting others. We believe this is all arbitrary and not to be in the act.
So we would substitute a term of 14 years as a maximum for all of those provisions that provide for mandatory minimums. That's the purpose of NDP-16.
We have another, although Mr. Cotler is in there with an article between them.
I will advise that we're withdrawing NDP-17, NDP-18, NDP-19, and NDP-20, all of which refer to other subsets of those individual sentences, and we would stand or fall on the elimination of all of them as a group.