Readers speak out on the new Conservative leader\u0027s tough stance on illegal drugs, and more, in the Letters to the Editor
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Instead of prohibition, realism should be the policy driver to fix Canada’s social ills with regard to illegal drugs. Canada legalized marijuana ahead of many other western democracies and we are not worse off as a result. Portugal legalized all drugs and so far has produced better overall outcomes in lives and money saved. Unfortunately, with Poilievre’s retreat into past anti-drug policies, the Conservatives are positioned politically on the wrong side of history.
Pierre Trudeau’s justification for invoking the War Measures Act, the forebear of the Emergencies Act, was to stop a parallel power, the FLQ, in its attempt to prevent the democratically elected government from executing the will of the people. The act was invoked only when the municipal and provincial governments proved incapable, by their own admission, of discharging their constitutional obligations of maintaining law and order, and requested federal intervention.
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