Justice committee  I agree on that point. Pardon me if I said it that way. It may give the court an additional tool. If the person is found guilty under the suggested section 253.1, he or she will be prohibited from driving. I did not express myself properly. The police officer roadside is not the

Justice committee  Cannabis is listed in Schedule II.

Justice committee  Nowhere.

Justice committee  There is none.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  I would just add that in the case of cannabis, the lawful excuse offence would apply to a person who has received permission to possess cannabis for medical reasons. In that case, for all practical purposes it is a medication.

Justice committee  First of all, in the part of this bill that has to do with drugs, the provision is nearly exactly the same as the one passed by the committee during the last Parliament. This new offence, which would apply in the case of all drugs, was added by the Standing Committee on Justice,

Justice committee  Currently, if a police officer finds drugs in your possession that are listed in Schedule I, II or III, obviously he can lay criminal charges against you. It is enforcement of the law.

Justice committee  There are a couple of slight exceptions to that, the most important of which would be that the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act does not provide for the summary conviction offence with respect to under 30 grams of marijuana. That is not one that would be punished in the same w

Justice committee  Yes. Possession of schedule I, II and III drugs is an offence under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. The level of penalties varies.

Justice committee  The only other thing, of course, is that if you're transporting enough, you're going to be into a charge of trafficking under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, which is much more serious than this. If this were adopted, there would be a variety of tools the police officer

Justice committee  That is correct.

Justice committee  You said that even people who have taken medication could be jailed. Normally, a person in that situation would, I believe, have what we call a lawful excuse.

Justice committee  Consequently, there is no problem with medication. When we looked at this clause again, we realized that it was the same provision as the one passed by the standing committee in the last Parliament. When we added the prohibition against driving, we didn't think of the effect it w

Justice committee  We have Corporal Graham here, who runs the program for the RCMP, and he was the one who said we would be light years ahead of other countries. I'm certainly not an expert on how they have done this in the 46 U.S. states that have brought this together. Their constitutional arrang