They didn’t even remove from the Criminal Code the mandatory minimum sentences that have been declared unconstitutional. They try to minimize the effects of drug criminalization but they won’t decriminalize it. Decades of additions, deletions, amendments and changes stacked upon changes, sections of the Criminal Code that have 30 or more subsections have made criminal law so complicated and convoluted that it is almost unworkable. We need an overhaul of our way of thinking about the philosophy and purpose of criminal law. We need a new Canada Law Reform Commission, which was disbanded in 1972 to guide us.
