Ottawa

Just say no

Michael Ignatieff has indicated that a Liberal government would support the decriminalizing of marijuana, so understandably, while taking part in the announcement of a new anti-drug campaign yesterday, Conservative backbencher Shelly Glover lamented that the Liberal leader was encouraging the nation’s children to smoke marijuana.

For whatever it is worth, last March Mr. Ignatieff told a crowd of high school students that the “last darn thing” he wanted was for them to be smoking marijuana.

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