This week Emilie and I were joined by Liberal MP for Beaches—East York Nathaniel Erskine-Smith to talk about his private members bill designed to reform some of Canada's animal cruelty laws. Of course we also could not resist talking about marijuana and a couple other justice issues. Erskine-Smith has a law degree and a masters in political philosophy and constitutional law. He has worked at litigation firms and spent time volunteering for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. He has been an outspoken critic of his own party's drug policy and raised concerns about the Liberal's assisted-dying legislation. There has been some misleading criticism of Erskine-Smith's animal justice bill - including by the Liberal parliamentry secretary to the Minister of Justice Bill Blair. Bottom line - it is a really interesting bill and we had a very thought provoking discussion.