NDP urges Senate to pass justice reform bill, begin countdown to drug-possession record suspension

As the Senate studies Bill C-5, NDP MP Randall Garrison and civil liberties associations say they hope Senators won't make 'perfect the enemy of the good' in addressing the 'historic injustice' of drug criminalization.

Prior to the legalization of marijuana in 2018, pot smokers made a yearly pilgrimage to Parliament Hill each April 20 for an annual '4/20' celebration and protest against the federal government's criminalization of marijuana possession. In the years since advocates have called on Ottawa to do more to suspend the criminal convictions of Canadians.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

October 19, 2022

Following U.S. President Joe Biden’s announcement that he would be pardoning federal convictions for cannabis possession, criminal justice advocates have increasingly called on the Liberal government to do more to remove the barriers Canadians with criminal records face accessing employment, housi...

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