The federal government reintroduced a bill to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. The proposed law introduced in the Commons November 1st was the same as previous legislation that died when the June election was called. Conservative justice critic Vic Toews (TAYVZ) predicted the bill would hurt Canada-US relations.

Date: 2004-11-01
Placeline: OTTAWA, Ontario.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 16 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << we know that the Americans are very opposed to this bill and and quite frankly as my constituents say to me we would rather be working than smoking drugs it's as simple as that how does this government guarantee that there won't be retaliatory action by the American >>

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