SEED SELLER AND SENATOR STIR THE POT IN THE DEBATE ABOUT ILLEGAL DRUGS

Re: Plan targets serious drug offenders, Soundoff, Jan. 14

I find it interesting to note that the Canadian government has been
accepting income tax payments from Marc Emery for the past few years.
Apparently his source of income wasn't considered illicit by the tax
man, but now that U.S. marshals have come knocking, our law man sees
fit to intervene.

I urge our federal government to protect Canadian sovereignty in these
matters, although I see very little hope in this given Justice
Minister Rob Nicholson's latest volley in the war on drugs. In his
Soundoff, he explains that it may take a while to break Canadians'
complacency towards illicit drugs. I find it odd that our public
representatives would take a position counter to that of the majority
of Canadians in this matter. Why do we need to be roused from our
comfortable and healthy relationship with marijuana, and why does this
government not protect a citizen of Canada when the crime he is being
extradited for is not a crime in Canada, or at least is not considered
dire enough to be prosecuted?

Andrew Baxter

Vancouver