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June 23, 2009 Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA ADVISORY

FEDERAL MP LIBBY DAVIES RALLIES TO SAVE MAP VAN

Vancouver- Vancouver East MP, Libby Davies will join rally coordinators - WISH Drop-In Centre Society and the Prostitution Alternatives Counselling and Education (PACE) Society for a candle-light vigil Tuesday night, in support of the outreach MAP (Mobil Access Project) van.

“This van provides essential health and safety services for hundreds of women in the survival sex trade,” said Davies. “Closing down this successful project is unthinkable and will only hurt our community’s most vulnerable women.”

When: 9:30 p.m. Tuesday June 23, 2009

Where: Corner of East Hastings and Gore

Who: WISH Drop-In Centre Society and
PACE Society

The MAP vigil will take place from 9:30 pm to 10:00 pm at 13 intersections across the Downtown Eastside. Libby Davies will participate at the Hastings and Gore intersection.

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Libby on Bill C-475 an Act to Amend the Controlled Drug and Substances Act

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March 9, 2010 Speeches in Parliament

MARCH 9, 2010
HANSARD
House of Commons

Debate on Bill C-475 an Act to Amend the Controlled Drug and Substances Act (Methamphetamines and Ecstasy)

Ms. Libby Davies (Vancouver East, NDP):
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak to Bill C-475. I would like to thank the hon. member for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country for introducing the bill. It is very similar to a bill that was introduced awhile ago. I spoke to that bill and it went to committee. The fact that it is back before the House is evidence of the hon. member's serious intent to bring forward this issue. We certainly appreciate that.

I want to make a few general points about the bill as it relates to the larger issue of drug policy and what we have seen from the government. While on the one hand the bill deals very specifically with substances that are involved in the selling, production or import of amphetamines and ecstasy, as it relates to the larger issue, we have to be aware that reliance on an enforcement strategy and an approach that is focused on the Criminal Code is not going to solve the very major issues we are facing with drug addiction and substance use in our society.

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Libby speaking out agains the Conservative's so-called drug policy

February 12, 2010
The Ottawa Citizen
Soft on TruthWhen you look beyond the paternalism, cynicism, genuine concern -- whatever motives drive the Harper government's punitive approach to crime -- only one question matters. Is it effective? Will closing Vancouver's safe injection site, Insite, reduce drug addiction and related crime? Will imposing six-month minimum jail sentences on anyone caught with as few as five marijuana plants inhibit pot-smoking among teenagers? Will expanding prisons reduce violence in our streets? Most legal experts, criminologists, addiction researchers and street-level health workers, along with many police chiefs and past reports from Parliamentary committees, say "no" -- as does the experience of other "tough-on-crime" jurisdictions. ...As New Democrat Libby Davies noted: "What they are doing is not based on evidence, whatsoever. It's a political stance."
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Conservatives ignore law and science to shut down InSite - Libby Speaking out for InSite

February 9, 2010 Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 9, 2010

VANCOUVER - Libby Davies, MP for Vancouver East, called on the Conservative Government today to explain their decision to ignore multiple court rulings in favour of keeping open InSite, Canada’s safe injection site.

“InSite saves lives,” said Davies. “The science proves it, and the B.C Supreme Court and B.C. Appeal Court agree. Yet the Conservatives continue to spend tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on legal fees to try to shut it down,” added Davies. "Canadians want an explanation”

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Libby Speaking out on Medical Marijuana - Health Canada Must Consult With Stakeholders

February 4, 2010 Open Letters to Ministers & Public Officials

Hon. Leona Aglukkaq
Minister of Health
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6

Dear Minister Aglukkaq,

Thank you for your August 2009 letter in response to my call for a full public review of the Canada’s Marijuana Medical Access Regulations (MMAR).

In your letter, you outline your plan to amend the MMAR to address the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling that Paragraph 41 (b.1) violates the Charter or Rights and Freedoms and “unjustifiably limits the ability” of authorized patients to access medical marijuana. You also mention the need to examine regulations concerning the use of medical marijuana in public.

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Libby and the NDP vote NO on C-15

June 9, 2009
Telegraph-Journal
Liberals on sidelines as Tories push through tougher drug lawsOTTAWA - One leading critic calls it a law that would have put a young Barack Obama in prison, but Liberal justice critic Dominic LeBlanc defends the official Opposition's support of a Conservative bill to fight drug crime. MPs were set to pass Bill C-15 Monday, which relies heavily on mandatory minimum sentences to deter drug dealers.
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Libby speaking out against mandatory mimnum sentences

June 4, 2009
Canwest News Service
Drug-sentence bill may get OK soonA federal bill to impose automatic jail terms for drug crimes, for the first time in Canada, is headed for passage in the House of Commons in a final vote that could happen as early as Thursday. If the proposed legislation succeeds as anticipated, judges will be stripped of their discretion on whether or not to incarcerate drug traffickers, including offenders who grow and then sell as few as five marijuana plants.
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