moved for leave to introduce Bill C-248, an act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (trafficking in a controlled drug or substance within five hundred metres of an elementary school or a high school).
Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague, our justice critic, the member for Provencher for seconding this bill.
This piece of private members' legislation concerns the need to prevent drug dealers from preying upon our children. The bill would impose minimum prison sentences of one year for a first offence and two years for further offences for a person convicted of trafficking in a narcotic within 500 metres of an elementary school or a high school.
We must send a forceful message that pushing drugs upon children will not be tolerated by our society and will result in mandatory imprisonment and not a slap on the wrist.
I am seeking the unanimous consent of the House that the bill be numbered C-248 as it was known in the last Parliament.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)