Up in Smoke – Under the Influence.
Changes to the Criminal Code and the New Cannabis Act – Impact on
Immigration
Presenter/s: Richard Kurland LL.B, Jennifer Tobe LL.B. and Dani Willetts RCIC
Date: 28 February 2019
Time: 5 pm to 8:15 pm Pacific
Location: 300, 909 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC
Type: Seminar, Webinar and recording
Price: $75.00
CPD approved/pending:
- ICCRC - 3 CPD hours approved, expired 27 November 2019
- LSBC - 3 CPD hours approved, attendance to this course will provide you with 20 minutes of ethics and professional responsibility component for your BC Law Society reporting.
- For Alberta lawyers, consider including this course as a CPD learning activity in your mandatory annual Continuing Professional Development Plan as required by the Law Society of Alberta.
Outline – Up in Smoke: Under the Influence. Changes to the Criminal Code and the New Cannabis Act – Impact on Immigration
- Criminal Inadmissibility Immigration options and penalties
- Legislative References
- Criminality versus Serious Criminality
- Dividing statutes into elements
- Equating Foreign Offences to Canadian Offences (in brief)
- Changes to the Criminal Code
- Impact of the changes
- Remedies
- The Cannabis Act Border Issues
- Legal carrying limits
- Legal dispensaries and ordering online
- Driving and Impaired Driving
- Minors
- Illicit Cannabis
- Illicit Dispensaries
- Impact on different Immigration Categories
- Medical vs non-medical
- Growing 4 plants
- Looking forward – testing the new provisions
- Ethical considerations
- Comments from Richard Kurland
- Q/A
