OTTAWA — The federal government has granted British Columbia's request to scale back its drug decriminalization pilot program in public places, Mental Health and Addictions Minister Ya'ara Saks said Tuesday.
OTTAWA — The federal government has granted British Columbia's request to scale back its drug decriminalization pilot program in public places, Mental Health and Addictions Minister Ya'ara Saks said Tuesday."We know that we need to address the opioid crisis and the overdose deaths that we're seeing as a public-health issue. This is a health crisis, not a criminal one," she told reporters in Ottawa.
Following widespread concern from the public, nurses and police around consumption of drugs in public, B.C. Premier David Eby said his NDP government wanted to recriminalize the use of those drugs in spaces such as hospitals and parks. She said decriminalization is only one policy tool to deal with the toxic overdose crisis, adding that she is frustrated by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's efforts to make the issue political.
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