Truemors
Opinion
Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
Michael Perley, Director of the Ontario Campaign For Action on Tobacco is leading the charge in his mistaken belief he is acting on behalf of all Canadians in his rant against Children being used as Drug Mules. Perley accuses all Parents who allow their children to be included in the Duty Free Fiasco whereby Families visiting foreign countries are alloted so many Duty Free goods to be brought into this Country, including cigarettes.
Parents visiting the United States on a shopping trip and bringing back goods are crossing the border with cigarettes and after tallying the math on the duty free dollar amount on the total of all the groceries and other stuff purchased in the United States each person as a family bought as a whole usually include their children purchasing power, so if Timmy or Britney's allotment is lower and there is room to say allot some of Dad's cigarettes, snow tires etc into their childrens alloted amount, then families on a budget can top up their duty free allotment to the maximum allowed. Everyone with friggin brain,(except Perley) including Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) knows the 5-year old kid aint gonna be smoking Mom and Dad's cigarettes, so in a knowing Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink, the CBSA must wave them through. End of Story !!
Now to move onto Mr. Perley, you see Mr. Perley's Action Partys actual hidden agenda is to Ban Cigarettes entirely in this country and the world, regardless of the freedoms Canadians enjoy, I compare him to another political party of the 1930's and 1940's whereby one individual insisted under threat of death or imprisonment that everyone conform to his ideology.
Now Mr. Perely enjoys the company of many other like minded organizations of "one thought process" in the mistaken belief that they above all else must speak for us as a whole because we are obviously too stupid to make decisions for ourselves, and these politically correct parties insist on protecting us from immorality, social ills, trans fats, alcohol, environment, playboy mags, hybrid cars, discipling our children to what we wish to watch on television.
These are the same parties who conduct polls amongst themselves on what is acceptable and then run to the media waving their Pro stance results saying See, we are correct, so Canada must conform, because 1,000 people we polled said so.
If these so called enforced info Nazi style parties of social correctness had their way, we would all be eating granola and tofu and living in recyclable cardboard boxes.
In ending, for Perely to accuse families of using their children as Drug Mules because a family may have thrown a carton of smokes into the childs duty free allotment leaves me to believe what's next? Will other Politically correct organizations start going through our Duty Free goods and state, Parents are alloting Trans
Fats, Non Fair Trade Coffee, plastic bags, non organic chicken, child labour asian clothing goods in their childrens Duty Free goods, hence their children are complicit in the World's destruction as Social and Environmental Death Merchants.
Give me a F*@king Break !
By KATHLEEN HARRIS,
NATIONAL BUREAU CHIEF
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day has ordered federal officials to find ways to close a legal gap that permits kids to import cigarettes.
Responding to a Sun Media report, Day's spokesman Melisa Leclerc said the government does not condone a policy that prevents border guards from seizing smokes brought in by minors from foreign countries.
"It is not the government of Canada's policy to allow children to import tobacco products into Canada," she said. "Minister Day has directed Canada Border Service Agency officials to work with Health Canada and provincial and territorial counterparts to determine if and when legislation could be amended to address the issue."
NO AUTHORITY
Last fall, CBSA quietly issued a memo to staff advising them they did not have legal authority to confiscate or hold tobacco products imported by minors.
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