June 2015

Marijuana Debate - The NDP Position on Marijuana

Dear Friends,

Tuesday in the House of Commons, a Standing Committee on Health report from October 2014 was debated in the House. The report was called “Marijuana’s Health Risks and Harms” – a title, which, from the very beginning, shows the bias of the Conservative majority members on the committee, who unilaterally set the scope for the study to match their partisan, preconceived beliefs about marijuana.

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We Need a New Map - My Farewell Address in Parliament after 18 years

OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD)
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Speaker: The Honourable Andrew Scheer

Mr. Speaker, this is an excerpt from Being True to Ourselves, by poet, Sandy Cameron:

 

“The map we inherited

isn’t any good.

The old roads mislead

and the landscape keeps changing.

People are confused

and drift from place to place,

clothes scorched by fire

eyes red with smoke.

 

The old map tells us

to look for gold

in the city,

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This Statement in the House of Parliament was posted on June 2, 2015