e-3174 (Indigenous affairs)
- Keywords
- Cannabis
- Crop production
- Indigenous policy
- Permits and licences
- Port Alberni
- Racial equality
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Minister of Health
- Health Canada has an open file (no. 10-MM0330) to license a medical marijuana facility at 7827 Beaver Creek Road, in Port Alberni, British Columbia;
- This Walmart-sized cannabis facility would be located directly across the street (174 m) from Kackaamin, a First Nations Family Trauma and Addictions healing centre that provides treatment to adults, while housing the entire family, with onsite fully accredited daycare and K-12 school;
- Kackaamin is doing the work of healing from our shared history of colonialism and residential schools;
- Kackaamin was never consulted in the initial planning of this facility, and has requested that this facility be located elsewhere;
- The purpose of the Cannabis Act is “to protect public health and public safety”; and
- The Government of Canada has commitments to reconciliation, the United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and to implement the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)'s Calls to Action.
- Open for signature
- February 18, 2021, at 6:34 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- June 18, 2021, at 6:34 p.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Gord Johns
(Courtenay—Alberni)
June 22, 2021 (Petition No. 432-01210)