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#CANADA: The "wacko" imbroglio over decriminalization. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ

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🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#CANADA: The "wacko" imbroglio over decriminalization. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/canadas-wacko-drug-policy-67b87a1f

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0:00.0

This is a CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor. WACCO, WACCO, you wouldn't at first recognize that as a split between the two major parties in Canada,

0:18.0

but it is, and I learned from Mariana Stasia Grady that the rules in the Parliament in Canada include that you're not permitted

0:26.0

to say the word wacko, even if you're the leader of the opposition addressing remarks by the

0:32.0

Prime Minister on the floor alive.

0:34.4

Mary, a very good evening to you.

0:35.8

This is an event that only in Parliament could this happen.

0:39.4

I don't believe that the Congress would have similar fashion.

0:43.2

There are some rules about decorum.

0:45.6

However, your presentation is important here.

0:48.8

What was Mr. Trudeau saying that Mr. Poluevra objected to with what you'd have to say was a snarky word

0:58.3

wacko.

0:59.3

Good evening to you.

1:00.3

Well good evening John.

1:01.6

Pierre Poliver is the leader of the Conservatives in the Canadian Parliament and he was responding to a controversy that's going on in Canada about federal drug policy in this province of British Columbia.

1:21.0

In British Columbia, the federal government is going along with a three-year

1:26.2

pilot program to decriminalize hard drugs and the program is one year into its three year period and things aren't

1:37.6

going well in British Columbia. So the British Columbia

1:45.0

ask the government to walk back parts of that decriminalization law.

1:50.0

And the federal government ask the government to walk back parts yet and that's why Pierre

1:58.8

Poliver rose to confront the Prime Minister in a session of Parliament and use the word

2:06.7

Wacko to describe the policy and to describe the person behind it who is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

2:15.8

Enter the drama.

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