Mulcair want decriminalization. I watched trudum say from his lips live at uwo. During the raids they are charged under federal law not a provincial law. Billy blair has said that dispensaries and cc's are illegal and the rcmp are under federal jurisdiction. Thats that help
The municipality pays for law enforcement. Many laws are federal...they are enforced at a local or provincial level. Many cities and towns have said marijuana laws are not an important use of resources. Some are even licensing dispensaries. How'd you think it would go over if the RCMP came in and took away Vancouver or Victoria's power to police? Maybe this will help you out...
Comparative Jurisdictions of Public Police Forces
Under the Constitution, responsibility for public policing is primarily a provincial matter. In exercising this responsibility, the provinces, through provincial Police Acts, have followed the British tradition and delegated the responsibility for public policing to municipalities when they are large enough to take it on. Nonetheless, provinces exercise considerable control over policing by paying part of the cost of municipal policing and by penalizing municipalities that fail to maintain standards. In most provinces this supervision is undertaken by a police commission established to avoid at least the appearance of direct governmental control over the public police. In addition, at the municipal level many towns and cities have established police boards to oversee the operation of the public police. Most municipal police forces, however, are governed directly by municipal councils or their committees.
The provinces not only provide provincial police for those areas that fall outside municipal jurisdiction but also support and co-ordinating services such as police training, criminal intelligence and forensic facilities.
Although the federal government does not have primary constitutional responsibility for policing, the federal police force, the RCMP, headquartered in Ottawa, is the largest single police force in the country and operates at both the municipal and provincial level in all provinces - except Ontario and Québec - and in the Yukon and the NWT. RCMP involvement in policing at the provincial and municipal levels arises because the RCMP contracts to provide policing services to the provinces and municipal jurisdictions.