Opposition members are finding fault with the Liberal government's announcement to introduce legislation to legalize and regulate marijuana next spring. In Question Period today NDP leader Tom Mulcair asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau why it is taking so long. (Trudeau replied that de-criminalizing use of pot still gives drug dealers a legal stream of income, as opposed to the Liberal plan to make it fully legal.)

Date: 2016-04-20
Placeline: OTTAWA.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 22 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << for more than three years they promised to legalize marijuana and yet thousands and thousands of Canadians will have criminal records for the rest of their life because they won't even decriminalize something that could have been done overnight question for the prime minister is this his in the meantime will the prime minister at least promise that there will be legislation to remove the criminal record >>

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