“As front-line organizations, researchers and experts who work with people who use drugs, we are writing to express our opposition to Bill C-15, an Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.”
Brief for submission April 27, 2009 to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights regarding Bill C-15, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
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