Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.social to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days agoThe illegal cigarette industry in western Canada is booming. Why?www.ctvnews.caexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-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 · 2 days agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squaremiss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days agoIs it illegal if I drive 5 mins to the rez and buy them there? Is the rez ‘organized crime’?
minus-squareHellsBelle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 days agoNever will be. Rez land is off limits for gov’t rules on selling tobacco … as it should be.
minus-squarekrooklochurm@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day 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-up2·1 day agoBut the government can impose rules on non-First Peoples’ possession off the reservation.
minus-squareHellsBelle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day 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.
Is it illegal if I drive 5 mins to the rez and buy them there? Is the rez ‘organized crime’?
Not yet.
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.