By Staff
May 27, 2015
BURLINGTON, ON
You can tell there is an election coming.
The politicians are putting petitions in front of their colleagues in the House of Commons. Burlington’s MP Mike Wallace had two this week.
The first petition was for the removal of all flavours of all tobacco products. This petition came from “youth” in the riding. Wallace didn’t identify them.
Burlington MP Mike Wallace giving Rotary a hand to raise funds for flood relief last August. Wallace’s home was one of the thousands that were severely damaged by flood waters.
The responsible thing for the MP to have done would be to move that it be made illegal to even sell tobacco products or use taxes to price them out of the market. Tobacco kills people; adds to our health costs.
The second petition Wallace put forward was to “adopt international aid policies to support small family farms, especially women farmers, and recognize their vital role in the struggle against hunger and poverty, and to ensure that Canadian policies and programs are developed in consultation with small family farms to protect the right of small family farms in the global south to preserve and use friendly exchanged seeds.”
Burlington has a small agriculture sector that grows hay and some other agricultural products. When will we see people seeking permission to grow cannabis – which could then become something the government could tax and give cigarette smokers a different product to use.
The House of Commons will rise soon for the summer break and is not expected to return until after the federal election expected to take placed October 19th.
Will Burlington choose to return Mike Wallace to Ottawa or will they decide that Karina Gould can do a better job for them?
“You can tell there is an election coming”. The slant of this anonymous “news” piece tells me there is an election coming.
Cigarettes are bad. Yes, we know.
What I infer from this article is that Mike Wallace is irresponsible and should perhaps be replaced because he didn’t move to ban all cigarettes. Just the flavoured ones for now.
So, is pot a healthy alternative to cigarettes? Will smokers give up cigarettes and just smoke pot instead? Does pot have any social or health costs? Does Karina Gould think that we should ban cigarettes and just have pot?
Really, what is the true purpose of this article?
Hmm all these “promise” bills are called window dressing.
There may well be somebody else representing Burlington come the next sitting of the Federal House of Commons. Burlington needs change, the sooner the better.
Ideally have a federal ban on the use of all smoking materials including tobacco and marijuana. For everybody.
And although it is a provincial matter have zero tolerance level for the consmption of either alcohol or drugs while operating a motor vehicle of any type.