From: johnturmel@gmail.com   
      
   TURMEL: Bela Beke challenges medpot grower 10-year criminal record check   
      
   JCT: I've been wanting to challenge the ban on people with   
   criminal records for cannabis offences in the past 10 years   
   from participating in the marijuana agriculture industry.   
      
   So Bela Beke who received a fine instead of a life sentence   
   for 10 pounds of marijuana volunteered. He has his exemption   
   but his criminal record stands in the way of his becoming a   
   Designated Person to grow for others.   
      
                                           File No: T-1262-19   
                          FEDERAL COURT   
   Between:   
                            Bela Beke   
                                                Plaintiff   
                               AND   
                      Her Majesty The Queen   
                                                Defendant   
      
                        STATEMENT OF CLAIM   
           (Pursuant to S.48 of the Federal Court Act)   
      
   1. The Plaintiff seeks a declaration that the requirement of   
   a Criminal Record check preventing those convicted of a   
   cannabis offence in the past 10 years from acting as a   
   Designated Person to grow marijuana under Section 311(2)(a),   
   Section 312(4)(c)(i), and Section 312(4)(d) be struck as   
   unconstitutionally violating the S.7 Charter Right to   
   Liberty, Security of citizens who have paid their debt to   
   society and want to join the cannabis industry and go   
   straight not in accordance with principles of fundamental   
   justice to not be arbitrary, grossly disproportional,   
   unnecessary.   
      
   PARTIES   
      
   2. The Plaintiff has a criminal record for a cannabis   
   offence.   
      
   3. The Defendant, Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada,   
   as represented by the Attorney General of Canada, is named   
   as the representative of the Federal Government of Canada   
   and the Minister of Health for Canada who is the Minister   
   responsible for Health Canada and certain aspects of the   
   Controlled Drugs and Substances Act including the Cannabis   
   Act and the Cannabis Regulations.   
      
   4. Section 311(2) states:   
      
       An individual is not eligible to be a designated person   
       if, within the preceding 10 years, they   
       (a) have been convicted, as an adult, of a designated   
       offence or a controlled substance offence;   
      
   5. Section 312(4)(c)(i) states:   
       If cannabis is to be produced by a designated person,   
       the application must include a declaration by the   
       designated person that contains   
       (c) an indication that   
       (i) within the 10 years preceding the day on which the   
       declaration is made, they have not been convicted of an   
       offence referred to in paragraph 311(2)(a) or (b) or   
       received a sentence referred to in paragraph 311(2)(c)   
       or (d),   
      
   6. Section 312(4)(d) requires:   
       (d) a document, issued by a Canadian police force within   
       the 90 days preceding the date on which the application   
       is submitted, establishing that, within the 10 years   
       preceding the date on which the document is issued, the   
       designated person has not been convicted of an offence   
       referred to in paragraph 311(2)(a) or received a   
       sentence referred to in paragraph 311(2)(c).   
      
   7. Having served my sentence in the war of Cops and   
   Gardeners, the Government has provided no cogent reason why   
   I should be made to wait 10 years before I can garden for   
   others.   
      
   16. The Plaintiff proposes this action be tried in the   
   City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario.   
      
   Dated at Ottawa on Aug 6 2019.   
   _________________________________________   
   Bela Beke   
      
   JCT: Simple enough! Why keep punishing people who were   
   illegally in the business from getting into the legal   
   business? Extra punishment? Revenge? Crown gets to explain   
   why it's important that he not be able to grow for others   
   until his 10 years penance has elapsed.   
      
   So, two new issues for the Federal Court to deal with   
   in Trudeau's attempt to corner the market for the big boys.   
   Did anyone vote for Trudeau last time?   
      
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