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Member of Parliament for the South Okanagan-West Kootenay Richard Cannings stood up in the House of Commons Friday to support an expungement of existing cannabis-related charges in the B.C. judicial system, now that cannabis is legal nationally.
"The whole point of this bill on expungement is that in the past, arrests for simple possession of marijuana were disproportionately handed out to marginalized Canadians. Young Canadians, Black Canadians and Indigenous Canadians are by far the people who have suffered the most for this. That is one of the reasons expungement is much more appropriate than a simple pardon," Cannings said.
He added that previous cannabis laws have left plenty of Canadians with criminal records who are not criminals in the general sense of the word.
"It has left people with criminal records. They cannot cross the border. They have difficulty finding work, in many
cases. They cannot even volunteer. A lot of times, if they want to coach a soccer team for their kid's school, they demand a criminal record check, and they cannot do that. It really affects the lives of Canadians, Canadians who we now say have done nothing wrong," Cannings said.
He urged the government to bring in pardons for past cannabis-related offences.
No conclusion has yet been reached on cannabis-related criminal expungements.
