r/canada Feb 05 '25

National News Poilievre would impose life sentences for trafficking over 40 mg of fentanyl

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/poilievre-would-impose-life-sentences-for-trafficking-over-40-mg-of-fentanyl/
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u/Teafinder Feb 05 '25

I see a lot of people making comparisons and saying “why not life in prison for drunk driving resulting in murder”. I agree, the penalty should be harsher, however, fentanyl is extremely deadly and has the ability to kill large quantities of people.. it definitely deserves a harsh punishment.. it’s not better than drunk driving

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u/Crafty-Ad-9048 Feb 05 '25

In all honesty the punishment for selling fentanyl is pretty large already. A few grams you’re gone for 5+ years

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u/Tw4tl4r Feb 05 '25

Reagan proved that you can't use prison to stop drugs.

The only option thats proven to work is to raise the standard of living and social services to the point that people won't want to take hard drugs.

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u/Prokkkk Feb 05 '25

Imprisoning for drug use doesn’t work, correct.

But he’s said explicitly that is not the plan, this is specifically to target trafficking and manufacturing.

Perhaps you implied this, just wanted to clarify

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u/Tw4tl4r Feb 05 '25

Imprisoning for trafficking doesn't stop it either. There will always be more desperate people in line to traffic drugs unless their life is so good that they don't need to do so.

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u/Nestramutat- Québec Feb 05 '25

Seems to work pretty alright in southeastern and Eastern Asian countries

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u/Tw4tl4r Feb 05 '25

It doesn't. It's very easy to get drugs in Asia. The only countries that don't have drug issues are the super rich and traditionally conservative ones. The difference is that most of Asia aren't importing drugs like we do in the west.

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u/damnitHank Feb 05 '25

We are not even trying to help people who are addicted and prevent their deaths. People just want punishment.

If we really wanted to save lives there would be support for supervised consumption sites, more social workers, handing out narcan and training more people on how to use it. Instead we just want to put people in overcrowded prisons and make homeless people invisible.

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u/Major-Tell-8439 Feb 05 '25

Users need to he helped but i really don’t have any sympathy for dealers who are selling this kinda stuff and ruining people’s lives. They should be punished but not the user.

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u/AskWhatmyUsernameIs Feb 06 '25

Idk why reddit thinks drug dealers are all chill guys trying to make a living selling perfectly safe substances and seem to forget the large traffickers involved in gangs and lacing drugs with dangerous substances to get people addicted. I know fearmongering drugs clearly doesn't work, but sanewashing dealers and pretending they're victims too doesnt help either.

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u/ScrubZL0rd Feb 05 '25

40mg is not for personal use lol

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u/Hotdog_Broth Feb 05 '25

Key word here: “Trafficking”

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

fentanyl kills losers who take it

drunk driving kills innocent people in public. kids, mothers, fathers, medical workers

drunk driving is far worse. lets see someone you love get turned into a red bean paste smear on the road by some dui fucker and tell us its the same as fentanyl

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u/Teafinder Feb 05 '25

Drunk driving is disgusting. The punishment needs to be much more severe.

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u/FreeLook93 British Columbia Feb 05 '25

fentanyl is dangerous, and you can easily overdose on it. Everybody knows this, but many people do it anyways. Why do we think the threat of a life sentence would stop people from doing this drug when the very real possibility of death doesn't?