Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.social to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 days agoThe illegal cigarette industry in western Canada is booming. Why?www.ctvnews.caexternal-linkmessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down10
arrow-up154arrow-down1external-linkThe illegal cigarette industry in western Canada is booming. Why?www.ctvnews.caSunshine (she/her)@piefed.social to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square29linkfedilink
minus-squareHellsBelle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·4 days agoNever will be. Rez land is off limits for gov’t rules on selling tobacco … as it should be.
minus-squarekrooklochurm@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 days agoI mean this 100% seriously: the natives should sell every fucking drug known to mankind to non natives. It’s their sovereign land, they’d make a fucking killing, and there’s an element of revenge there I quite like.
minus-squareharrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoBut the government can impose rules on non-First Peoples’ possession off the reservation.
minus-squareHellsBelle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoTrue … but there isn’t enough manpower in the RCMP or OPP to police every rez boundary like that. It would be an exercise in futility.
Never will be. Rez land is off limits for gov’t rules on selling tobacco … as it should be.
I mean this 100% seriously: the natives should sell every fucking drug known to mankind to non natives.
It’s their sovereign land, they’d make a fucking killing, and there’s an element of revenge there I quite like.
But the government can impose rules on non-First Peoples’ possession off the reservation.
True … but there isn’t enough manpower in the RCMP or OPP to police every rez boundary like that. It would be an exercise in futility.