People who have other offences on their records, aside from or in addition to possession of cannabis, will be required to pay the full fee and to fulfill the wait periods associated with those offences on their records. As the minister said, if their only offence is for possession of cannabis, and that might have been due to plea bargaining, as you mentioned, we are only reacting to the convictions that are on their records. We do not know if they would even have been convicted of any other offences. It's not really our place to second-guess what a court would have done.
On April 29th, 2019. See this statement in context.