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Bluelight Crew
Almost three quarters of all cases handled by federal prosecutors last year involved drugs, according to the annual report from the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.
The service, responsible for pursuing everything from health, safety and environmental infractions to economic fraud and terrorism, said Wednesday it handled 58,117 drug files -- 72 per cent of its total caseload in 2010-11.
In the second-largest category after drug crime, there were fewer than 10,000 prosecutions for breaches involving health, safety, economic and environmental regulations.
The annual report says there were just three prosecutions under anti-terrorism provisions in the Criminal Code, two of which are still before the courts; and two war crimes prosecutions.
The preponderance of drug prosecutions by an agency that pursues violations under everything from the Fisheries Act to the Income Tax Act and fraud on capital markets has some critics questioning the direction and focus of Canada's criminal justice system.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/09/22/pol-drug-prosecutions.html
The service, responsible for pursuing everything from health, safety and environmental infractions to economic fraud and terrorism, said Wednesday it handled 58,117 drug files -- 72 per cent of its total caseload in 2010-11.
In the second-largest category after drug crime, there were fewer than 10,000 prosecutions for breaches involving health, safety, economic and environmental regulations.
The annual report says there were just three prosecutions under anti-terrorism provisions in the Criminal Code, two of which are still before the courts; and two war crimes prosecutions.
The preponderance of drug prosecutions by an agency that pursues violations under everything from the Fisheries Act to the Income Tax Act and fraud on capital markets has some critics questioning the direction and focus of Canada's criminal justice system.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/09/22/pol-drug-prosecutions.html
