HoC Sitting No. 72 Marijuana Oral Questions - Thomas Mulcair vs Justin Trudeau
Channel: Sam Vekemans
Date: 2016-06-22

HoC Sitting No. 72 Marijuana Oral Questions - Thomas Mulcair vs Justin Trudeau

DescriptionSitting No. 72 House of Commons
LocationCentre Block - Chamber
Scheduled
Tuesday, Jun 14, 2016
10:00 AM - 11:59 PM
13 Hours 59 Minutes
Actual
Tuesday, Jun 14, 2016
10:03 AM - 10:57 PM
12 Hours 53 Minutes

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Marijuana
Oral Questions
June 14th, 2016 / 2:25 p.m.
NDP
Thomas Mulcair Outremont, QC

Mr. Speaker, I wish the Prime Minister would stop blaming the Conservatives and start respecting his own promises.

According to the Liberals, the problem is that it is impossible to decriminalize marijuana because it would be sold illegally. I have news for them: that is what is happening now. The only thing that would change is that tens of thousands of young Canadians would not have a criminal record, and that would be a good thing.

Why is that so hard for the Prime Minister to understand?

Why does he want young Canadians to keep ending up with criminal records?

Marijuana
Oral Questions
2:25 p.m.
Papineau 
Québec
Liberal
Justin Trudeau Prime Minister

Mr. Speaker, NDP members are once again showing that they do not understand the issues around marijuana. Decriminalizing it would provide a legitimate source of income to street gangs, criminal organizations, and gun runners.

We have a proposal to legalize marijuana so that we can protect our children by making it harder for them to get marijuana and eliminate a source of income for criminals. That is what we promised to do, and that is what we will do.

Marijuana
Oral Questions
2:25 p.m.
NDP
Thomas Mulcair Outremont, QC

Mr. Speaker, I guess for the Prime Minister it is a classic case of do as I say, not as I do.

The government is trying to argue that if we decriminalize marijuana, there may be some who will sell it illegally. This just in: that is what is happening now. Do Liberals really think that they can tell everybody in Canada to stop smoking dope until they finally get around to legalizing it? That just does not make any sense.

If the Prime Minister is serious about moving toward legalization, why is his government continuing to hand out tens of thousands of criminal records to young Canadians? That is wrong, and they can change it easily.

Marijuana
Oral Questions
2:25 p.m.
Papineau 
Québec
Liberal


Justin Trudeau Prime Minister

Mr. Speaker, legalizing marijuana is done with two things in mind. It is done to protect young people from having the easy access that they have right now to marijuana, and it is about reducing the capacity of criminal organizations, street gangs, and gun runners to make incredible profits off that marijuana.

Until we bring in a legalized controlled regime, marijuana remains illegal. That is the law of the land. That is what we are working on changing, but we will change it to protect our young people and protect our communities. https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/6/14/thomas-mulcair-3/

Official Transcript from Parliament of Canada Website
http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=8365546&Language=E&Mode=1#Int-8996860

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