| The Province |
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Sen. Larry Campbell has an easy, three-point plan for ridding our streets of violent gangsters who spray all-night Chinese restaurants with deadly gunfire:
A: Legalize pot. B: Sell it. C: Use the money to hire more cops.
Simple solution, right? But there's one simple problem stopping it from getting done. And his name is Stephen Harper.
"You have a simple man, the prime minister, running a simple party in a simple way," Campbell, the former Vancouver mayor, told me in one of his classic shoot-from-the-lip interviews.
The political crossfire began shortly after two masked gunmen strafed the Fortune Happiness restaurant with a blizzard of bullets, killing two people and wounding six in an apparent gangland hit.
The chalk outlines of the bodies had barely been drawn when Conservative boss Harper went political, pointing a finger at the Liberals for holding up two gun-crime bills in the Senate.
Bill C-10 would increase mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes, while Bill
C-35 would make it tougher for suspects in gun crimes to get bail. Both bills were still awaiting Senate approval when Parliament shut down for the summer.
"Let's get on with passing these laws so we can crack down on this phenomenon," Harper said, calling on Liberal Leader Stephane Dion to "get his unelected senators out of the way."
"Nonsense," Campbell fires back, saying it was Harper who shut down the parliamentary session before the Senate had a chance to consider the bills.
"He talks about unelected senators," Campbell fumed to me on Nightline BC on CKNW. "About a third of Canadians want the Conservatives and two-thirds can't stand them. Where's his moral right to govern?"
Despite that, Campbell said he supports Harper's gun-crime bills. Though you'd never know it by the way he trashes them.
3 comments:
hah hah.
posting utter nonsense.
Reading comprehension seems a priceless commodity around here no?
I am not sure where your "around here" is but your are right.... something, maybe contaminated air, is making it impossible for you to comphrehend.
With Predujice
you're too easy.
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