Retailers are required to keep the items stored in a way so shoppers can’t access them without assistance.

Businesses are also required to sell only to adults with photo identification and to keep records of their sales for two years.

Professor of Criminology Frank Cormier joined guest host Chloe Friesen to discuss the new law, follow the link to ear the conversation on CBC Manitoba.

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Instead, an administrator is assigned at the public guardian office who makes those decisions.   

“Losing control over one’s finances is massive,” said Brandon Trask, an assistant professor who teaches a law and disability course at the University of Manitoba’s faculty of law.

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It “seems like a low sentence, and I expect most people in society would feel the same way,” said University of Manitoba assistant law professor Brandon Trask.

“There would have been, from my perspective, a clear pathway to conviction for criminal negligence causing death which, in theory, could have led to a maximum sentence of life, though realistically that sentence would not have been imposed in the circumstances,” he said.

A sentencing judge has limited leeway to depart from a joint recommendation, Trask said.

“It also seems like the focus was on the rehabilitative work the parents have been doing to improve their parenting skills, which would be an important consideration,” he said.

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