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Law

"Grow-Op House Seized"

Submitted by shiri on Thu, 2007-01-25 19:54.

A mondo grow-op bust in Oshawa, Ontario gave Queen's Park an opportunity to exercise a powerful new "legal weapon" called the Civil Remedies Act, Toronto Star reported on January 19th.

The plan to confiscate the private property of "criminals" in order to compensate the "victims" of crime was introduced by Ontario's Attorney General Michael Bryant. The Act "allows the attorney general to have civil courts freeze, seize and forfeit the proceeds and instruments of unlawful activity to the Crown."

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