Argus

Harper's minimum mandatory BS was condemned by all Canadians, being native has nothing to do with it.

False....

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...One can, once again, find Canadian data to support the view that Canadians like mandatory minimums. In one national poll, 58% of the respondents in the national poll indicated that they thought mandatory minimum sentences were a ‘good idea.’

http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/vea-avp/p3.html

Of course a majority supported it.   Doubt they would support this sentence for smuggling coke, how much damage would that to do her people, nobody thought about that and the consequences of her likely selling it.