Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says she's open to a conversation around decriminalizing small quantities of drugs and easing Canada's prostitution laws — both progressive policies that are popular with youth delegates at the Liberal Party convention underway in Halifax. Among the 30 policy resolutions being debated by grassroots Liberals is one to decriminalize the sex trade. Liberal Party convention delegate Noor Samiei wants the government to decriminalize possession of small quantities of drugs as a way to treat drug abuse as a health issue. Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr was blunt about what's at stake. are split on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, so too are Liberals at odds over the country's broader oil policy for the future.

Source: CBC News April 20, 2018 08:00 UTC