Pubdate: Mon, 28 Dec 2009
Source: Times & Transcript (Moncton, CN NK)
Copyright: 2009 New Brunswick Publishing Company
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2660
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n1130/a06.html
Author: T.J. Meehan

JUST A DISTRACTION?

To The Editor:

New Brunswick Justice Minister Mike Murphy -- of all people -- should
know that the courts take a dim constitutional view of the provinces
entering into the federal criminal power realm ("Province pushes for
stronger drug laws," Dec. 17).

Suspending someone's driver's licence for a drug conviction, as
California tried in the 1980s, is, despite his assertion, not only
outside the province's power, but appears to be a cynical move by the
Graham government to deflect attention from the public outrage over
the sale of NB Power to Hydro-Quebec.

Shame.

T.J. Meehan,

Kingston, Ont.
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