The actual evidence seems to indicate that is just about the opposite of what is actually happening, but who trusts actual evidence these days? The bill was soundly defeated, but Poilievre keeps blaming safer supply - which is often hydromorphone, pharmaceutical-grade heroin - for increases in overdoses and crime. That’s the kind of thing a person might say after several alcoholic drinks or maybe some cannabis, purchased at either a government-run store or a private establishment. Poilievre introduced a motion to ban safe supply of drugs, or safer supply, as some people call it, as if there can be safe supply of a narcotic in our society. “Nowhere is this worse than in the opioid overdose crisis, which has expanded so dramatically in the last several years.” “Worst of all, crime and chaos, drugs and disorder rage in our streets,” said Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s federal Conservatives, in the House of Commons last month. Yes, this may be a complex blend of a global pandemic, a housing crisis, the underfunding and erosion of existing institutions, a toxifying drug supply, and maybe some crypto mixed in, to help move drugs around.īut we are told we must get tough, and that will solve everything. There are more unhoused Canadians, more tent cities, more drug overdoses, more deaths, and you may have to see a homeless person on the subway, so we must get tough.
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