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Senate Foreign Affairs Committee won’t have time to fully examine how sweeping cannabis bill will affect international treaties, says Andreychuk
By Peter Mazereeuw Apr. 9, 2018
The Senate committees are under a ‘tight timeline' to review the cannabis bill, and Conservatives say they could save major cannabis amendments for the final debate. Meanwhile, Senators are still hashing out whether or how to change the bill, while Canadians flood their email inboxes.
Senator Peter Harder, the government’s representative in the Senate, said the Senate should pass C-45 out of respect for the long-standing tradition of passing legislation that is part of the government’s campaign platform, in an opinion piece published in Policy Options Magazine on April 5.
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The Senate Foreign Affairs and International Trade Committee won’t be able to examine all the ways the government’s cannabis legalization bill will affect Canada’s international treaties before reporting back to the Senate by May 1, says Saskatchewan Conservative Senator Raynell Andreychuk, who chairs the committee.
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