Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply   addiction. I will be working on a private member's bill on this important issue. Langley is not immune to marijuana grow ops, the illegal drug trade and prostitution. It is organized crime and drug addiction that fuels most of the crime. I intend to work with my colleagues to see detox

Contraventions Act   of homicide victims are young men between the ages of 16 and 25 and it is associated with the drug trade. I think that this is not a top of the mind concern and I really do not know who is driving this agenda. As I said, I think it had a lot to do with the former ministers of health

Contraventions Act   anecdotal and I believe empirical evidence, that marijuana is--not in every instance, but can be in many instances--a gateway drug to more serious narcotics, narcotics that destroy and kill people. If there is anybody in this place who thinks that the drug trade in narcotics is just

Contraventions Act  . They are not just in Canada. People are getting fat off of this kind of activity. Lawyers will go to any length to defend them because they know there are lots of bucks involved in the drug trade. This legislation could very well increase the demand for marijuana. Bill C-10 could make

Contraventions Act  Mr. Speaker, the member makes an excellent point, a point that maybe has been missed by the Liberals in the House. By having decreased fines for young people, this will encourage senior people to associate themselves with young people and get them involved in the drug trade

Contraventions Act   an extremely negative effects on our society. Crime is devastating many of our communities. It is impacting on people's lives. The police are raising this issue. There are huge profits associated with the drug trade, say the RCMP. Those people will simply laugh at a fine of $150 or $300

Contraventions Act   that would be imposed are almost laughable if it were not so sad. We all know that the profits being made in the drug trade are huge. Thousands and millions are being made. A fine of $150 or $300 will simply become a business expense. It is similar to slapping a fine of $1,000 on the CEO

Contraventions Act   but it does not provide the resources to the police departments. What are the police going to do? Are they going to pick up from the explosion of grow ops and the explosion of the drug trade in hard drugs? I think not. The government has to put some money where its mouth is on this issue

Supply   the best possible return. That does not mean that people who are entrusted with the money can invest in illegal activities. They cannot obviously invest in the drug trade or anything else that would possibly pay higher returns. They must invest in a milieu within our country which

Reinstatement of Government Bills   and what constitutes the use of those kinds of medicines and things of entertainment that are useful, rather than the imbibing of drugs? Virtually every member of the House knows, and if they do not know they ought to, that one of the greatest beneficiaries of the drug trade

Contraventions Act   who want to get involved in the illegal drug trade much more so than before because they have a ready market and there are all kinds of ways to cover up illegal activities. The work for our police forces will not be decreased. The door will now be open, the thin edge of the wedge

Contraventions Act   into this illegal drug trade. Do we think that by decriminalizing this we are going to undermine criminals' ability to earn profits from this? Or are we in fact increasing the market for their product? An article from the Vancouver Sun of May 9 reports: In every neighbourhood: Marijuana has

An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals and firearms) and the Firearms Act  . They are living in poverty and despair. If we were to drive around part of the inner city in Regina we would see the condition of the housing. We would see the unemployed people. We would hear the stories about the drug trade and the prostitution trade. We would see the looks of despair

Committees of the House  . The FARC and ELN are guerrilla movements not based on ideology. The paramilitary is also a group not based on ideology. They are all thugs. They are criminal organizations whose main purpose is to control the drug trade. If there were no demand, this problem would end overnight

Criminal Code   not only to the sex and drug trades, but also to the litter left from the sex and drug trades. A 1999 study by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics reported a sharp increase in the number of prostitution related incidents following two years of decline. However the increase could