Acumen Law’s Kyla Lee provides a different perspective on #LavScam and the shuffling of Jody Wilson-Raybould to Veterans Affairs. Lee argues Wilson-Raybould just wasn’t a good Justice Minister.
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“She was responsible in her mandate letter for doing a significant number of things. She certainly had a very broad and difficult mandate and she did take action on many of the things that she was supposed to do like dealing with cannabis legalization, developing a scheme to deal with impaired driving by cannabis, dealing with the court concerns on assisted dying, things like that. But every step that she took to complete things in her mandate, she did in my view poorly and in a way that ultimately didn’t address what I think our Canadian justice system requires.”
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“There was a complete overhaul of the alcohol-impaired driving which was nowhere in her mandate. She wasn’t asked to deal with anything related to alcohol. She was asked to deal with issues that arose as a result of cannabis legalization. As far as what she did in that regard, she brought in the roadside saliva detector that is notoriously unreliable that police force, municipal police forces across the country have rebelled by saying they are not going to be using it. She created limit for the amount of THC that you can have in your body that are completely contrary to scientific research that says THC levels don’t indicate impairment as ultimately, negatively and disproportionally affect medical users.
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