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By: Brent Richter, Coast ReporterFOULDS: If gambling is good, why not legalize, tax and regulate pot?
By Christopher Foulds - Kamloops This WeekHarper lets the ethics slide
By National Post editorial boardOpposition calls for RCMP, ethics probes of Helena Guergis’ letter
Les Whittington Ottawa Bureau The StarDecriminalize Marijuana
Record doesn't support PM's claim that Liberal senators have blocked crime bills
By: Joan Bryden And Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian PressHarper names 5 to Senate
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Victims rights activist Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu for Quebec.
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Former provincial auditor general Elizabeth Marshall for Newfoundland and Labrador.
Chris Selley: Michael Ignatieff's gateway to the status quo
Crime bill exemption raises fears of Native exploitation
By: Andrew HanonEDMONTON -- When told about the Liberal-dominated Senate's revisions to the government's latest tough-on-crime bill, the former drug dealer howled with laughter.
"They wanna WHAT?" he said incredulously. "It's like they're encouraging grow-ops on reserves. It's so crazy; it's almost like a setup."
The Harper Tories are furious with the Senate's changes to Bill C-15, which they say weakens it to the point of uselessness.
But some members of Alberta's Native communities fear the revisions will allow organized crime to exploit impoverished, desperate people living on reserves, by paying them to grow weed.
"It will be like the Taliban and the opium trade in Afghanistan," said the former dealer.
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