Drugs, Gangs, "Strategy", Convincing Judges & Parliament

"Justice Ian Nordheimer seemed skeptical about Grant's gang ties, saying there was little direct evidence of his membership in the Crips."

What would it take to have convincing evidence, judge? But I'll bet the justice doesn't live in the worst area(s) for drug/gang/gun violence in Toronto.



Gang gun violence-drug trade-enablers & "STRATEGY"

Editorial: on "enablers" -- the soft on drugs crowd -- "the folks behind this study somehow managed to spend $300,000 of our money to develop this 'strategy.'"



"The difference is in the sentencing"

Related: There is much more on this site: Hansard- Oct 18,2005- Bill C-248 amending Controlled Drugs and Substances Act-Private Member's Business excerpt on Newsbeat1 -- or 38th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION -- EDITED HANSARD • NUMBER 136, Tuesday, October 18, 2005 -- "Controlled Drugs and Substances Act"

Mr. Jay Hill (Prince George—Peace River, CPC) moved that Bill C-248, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (trafficking in a controlled drug or substance within five hundred metres of an elementary school or a high school), be read the second time and referred to a committee.

[. . . . ] Drug dealers regularly discuss with each other the best place to go to plead guilty when they are caught red-handed dealing drugs, especially major drug deals. Where do they go? They go to the province of British Columbia and try to get into a Vancouver court. The charge is waived into Vancouver by the federal Department of Justice, whether the individual is originally from New Brunswick, or Manitoba, or Saskatchewan. These dealers set up residence in British Columbia, go to court and receive a conditional sentence. They walk out of court having been told to keep the peace but there is no way to effectively enforce a conditional sentence. Dealers think B.C. is a nice place to live so they set up business.

Is it any wonder that we have somewhere in the range of 10,000 grow ops in the lower mainland of British Columbia when across the line there are three or four cases a year in the United States? The difference is in the sentencing. [. . . . ]

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