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View Randy White Profile
CPC (BC)
Just on the amendments, yesterday my office was on the phone with the staff who were making the amendments. I have two amendments that are not here. We just talked to them, and the information I got was that they had them, but they're not sure what the person who was working on them did with them. In the final analysis, they're not here. I guess I'll have to go and--
View Randy White Profile
CPC (BC)
Mr. Chairman, it's not a lack of cooperation at all. In my case, I had no intention of being unfair to anybody. I did just confirm on the phone that the documents I was looking for were actually misplaced inadvertently.
View Randy White Profile
CPC (BC)
Yes, but it's a little late to be going through that. I personally support this piece of legislation and would like to see it go through, but I'd like to see it go through with as little pain as possible. I think we should wait and defer it.
View Randy White Profile
CPC (BC)
I didn't. My brother did.
View Randy White Profile
CPC (BC)
Mr. Chairman, this is an important issue here. I know we tend to be somewhat behind the dealers out there, but it is not necessarily the driver or the passengers who possess drugs at all. In fact, they're very careful not to posses them; they have them in compartments in cars, throughout the cars.
There is a very fast-growing organization in Canada called Dial-A-Dope. That organization actually has delivery agents in many cities now. They are strictly for the use of transporting drugs from point A to point B and selling them. One recent situation I was involved with--in fact one of the Dial-A-Dope transporters was complaining he was put on the midnight shift by his supervisor. That's how serious this is. It's like delivering pizza. So this is going to address this problem in part.
Another situation I've been involved in had a van with a large amount of drugs in it and four people overturned in that van. They all got off because they denied any knowledge at all of the drugs in the car, which was basically a lie in the courtroom, but they got away with it. I think this is a very smart way to move, and it will catch up, finally, with the antics of the dealers out there.
View Randy White Profile
CPC (BC)
I have just a couple of comments.
I prefer Mr. Toews' amendment on subsection 253(1), so I'd be willing to withdraw this if that's more appropriate. His is more inclusive on some of the issues.
The second one I have, on replacing line 17, page 4, is the same thing. I have “practitioner or a registered nurse”. I like the idea, quite frankly, of the “qualified technician”. I don't really think that's at all restrictive, so I would prefer to go with the Bloc wording on that.
Finally, the other one is identical to the Bloc's and was requested by many witnesses coming here: that the peace officer make a video. I see the Department of Justice is more or less in agreement with that as well.
That's all I had.
View Randy White Profile
CPC (BC)
I thank you all for coming. I have a great number of questions, but I'm not going to get all of them in, so I'll just make one comment.
I think we have a very poor articulation in this country of a national drug strategy, if there really is one, and how it works. And I think that in and of itself is part of the reason why today we're trying to find our way through the muddle of various aspects of drug policy.
I want to know if any of you would disagree with this comment: there is no relationship between Bill C-17 and Bill C-16. Would anybody disagree with this, that one is not contingent on the other?
View Randy White Profile
CPC (BC)
Thank you.
The reason I actually brought that up--it's been brought up here a number of times at committee--is that I did find a contradiction, Mr. Mann, in what you said. You mentioned how dangerous and serious cannabis-impaired driving is, and yet you advocated Bill C-17.
I just want to move on to something else here, to defining the word “drug”. I hear it almost every time a witnesses comes here; there's much discussion about having too much coffee, too many aspirins, and so on and so forth. This bill does not define drug. Would any of you care to take a stab at defining what a drug is, and where this bill might go with that?
In particular, I think there are two things that have potential here, and that is a schedule of drugs, as we would have anywhere else, or some kind of category of impaired substances or something like that. I think we're all struggling with exactly what drugs we are talking about, how much, whether or not people are impaired by them, whether or not they just have a quantity in their body at the time from some other use at some other time.
CCSA, perhaps.
View Randy White Profile
CPC (BC)
Anybody else? David.
View Randy White Profile
CPC (BC)
Thank you.
View Randy White Profile
CPC (BC)
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you all for coming here.
There have been some interesting presentations. I must say, though, that the legal submissions with respect to serious issues are remarkably similar. I sat on this committee when we dealt with Bill C-17, marijuana. There's a hit-and-run bill in the House right now. There have been similar concerns about the national sex offender registry, Bill C-16, DNA data bank, and a host of other bills that have gone through the House or are sitting here. This fear of Charter of Rights challenges has become an excuse for not improving the justice system. In the meantime, the carnage continues on the road.
Mr. Di Luca, would you succinctly tell me whether or not the Canadian Council of Criminal Defence Lawyers is in favour of proceeding with Bill C-16?
View Randy White Profile
CPC (BC)
Thank you.
I wrote some legislation that's before the House today, hit-and-run legislation, and it's getting a rough ride. I think it'll eventually come back into our committee here, and so it should.
I'd like to ask Mr. Solomon and Mr. McNeil about the relationship between the recent work done on impaired driving and Bill C-16. We're getting tougher on these pieces of legislation. I have found that many people today who get into an accident while impaired leave the scene for fear of getting caught under the current alcohol-impaired driving laws.
View Randy White Profile
CPC (BC)
I heard it several times here at this committee: what is a drug? In fact, coffee has been discussed a number of times. Poor Starbucks and Tim Hortons....
What if the bill listed drugs? If Bill C-16 had a schedule of drugs you were looking for—cannabis, meth, cocaine, heroine, speed, whatever—would that be an improvement?
View Randy White Profile
CPC (BC)
Mr. Lomer, where you lost me credibility-wise is in trying to relate the person leaving Tim Hortons to there being a problem. I don't think the analogy you were using fits this whatsoever, do you?
View Randy White Profile
CPC (BC)
Well, somebody loaded with coffee; that's what you were referring to.
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