Parliamentary Secretary Bill Blair for Justice & Health joined for a media conference

Surrey, BC On July 12, 2018, Parliamentary Secretary Bill Blair for Justice Health joined us for a media conference roundtable to discuss the new Cannabis legislation with his fellow Surrey MPCs Ken Hardie for Fleetwood Port Kells, Randeep Sarai for Surrey Centre and Sukh Dhaliwal for Surrey-Newton who Chaired the Media Conference. Bill Blair talked about, the current approach to cannabis does not work. It has allowed criminals and organized crime to profit while failing to keep cannabis out of the hands of Canadian youth. In many cases, it is easier for our kids to buy cannabis than cigarettes. That is why the Government of Canada, after extensive consultation with law enforcement, health and safety experts, and the hard work of the Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation, introduced legislation to legalize, strictly regulate and restrict access to cannabis. The legislation has now passed and will officially take into effect October 17, 2018. Now that Cannabis will be legalized in mid-October, it imposes serious criminal penalties for those who provide cannabis to young people, creates a legal and regulated market for cannabis to take profits out of the hands of criminals and organized crime, and would protect public health through strict product requirements for safety and quality. Our Government is taking decisive action to regulate and restrict access to cannabis strictly and to toughen our impaired driving laws.

In Q & A session Miracle Media asked : 1. What is the criteria to issue the Cannabis business licenses?

2. As per smoking habits in under 18 in schools. How we can protect our kids by adults addicts?

3. How you control cannabis in corners

of streets?

4. After legalizing this drug then what about others Synthetics drugs use in public? Parliamentary Secretary Bill Blair replied all Mr. Pirzada questions.

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“We want to support families concerned about protecting their kids. That’s our priority too, and that’s the reason we’re regulating marijuana. We want to keep it out of kids’ hands and take the profits away from criminals”.

- Member of Parliament Ken Hardie For Fleetwood – Port Kells