Consider this - under Bill C-10, a college student who grows a single marijuana plant in a dorm room, rolls a joint from it and shares it with a friend has a mandatory minimum sentence of nine months. Does this make sense?
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It makes sense if you are a PM that has had plans to privatize prisons his entire political career.
No, of course it doesn't make sense to handle college kids in this way. But neither would it make sense if it were a high scool drop-out or a shin-row "bum" or a....you get the drift. Your elitism is showing (again). It isn't clear if your objection is that the application of the minimum might capture the sons and daughters of lawyers and doctors - or if it is equally objectionable in terms of the poor and disenfranchised.
Anon -- I agree -- but the issue here is "rental". And college kids rent their dorm rooms. A high school drop out living at a home owned by their parent would need to grow ^ plants to be subject to the same mandatory minimum. That's truly nutz but it is the Bill.
Anonymous - Morton using a college student as an example doesn't leave place for you to make those kinds of allegations...at all. What does it take to be politically correct these days?
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It makes sense if you are a PM that has had plans to privatize prisons his entire political career.
No, of course it doesn't make sense to handle college kids in this way. But neither would it make sense if it were a high scool drop-out or a shin-row "bum" or a....you get the drift. Your elitism is showing (again). It isn't clear if your objection is that the application of the minimum might capture the sons and daughters of lawyers and doctors - or if it is equally objectionable in terms of the poor and disenfranchised.
Anon -- I agree -- but the issue here is "rental". And college kids rent their dorm rooms. A high school drop out living at a home owned by their parent would need to grow ^ plants to be subject to the same mandatory minimum. That's truly nutz but it is the Bill.
Anonymous - Morton using a college student as an example doesn't leave place for you to make those kinds of allegations...at all. What does it take to be politically correct these days?
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