Dear editor:
This letter is in response to the story concerning the new B.C. allowance of certain occasions of public drinking.
Your points are valid, only if you change the following: Any legal defense that can rest on the reason “of being intoxicated”.
Good luck changing all the laws and the history of Canadian court cases. For if you do not change all these, you are then pushing responsibility onto the bystander for the drunken actions of anyone.
So Canadian legal defense would have to completely eliminate any “being intoxicated” defense.
The province of B.C. has literally opened a world of legal nightmares for the benefit of selling a few more drinks.
Adam Huculak
