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We hear a LOT about the crud happening in Mexico, but rarely anything Canadian...
I'm curious, what are the sentences north of the border for drug offenses?Tougher sentences may explain why more Canadian drug traffickers like Charles Lai face a courtroom in America, not Canada.
Even though Canadian authorities say they are capable of trying their own criminals, crime experts say police are sometimes all too happy if smugglers are captured in the United States, where they face a less bureaucratic justice system and longer stretches in jail.
"In these regional operations, the tendency has been for the offenders to be arrested, charged and processed in the United States, not Canada," said Robert Gordon, director of the School of Criminology at the Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. "That's an indictment of how we are handling this."
We hear a LOT about the crud happening in Mexico, but rarely anything Canadian...
