@Gar i completely understand the theory behind the Halloween treat methodology and running the gauntlet of well meaning individuals. I’m telling you it doesn’t work. Only the individual can extract themselves from addiction. The only way to do that is for a person to hate the drug and the lifestyle more than they crave the high. Making it easy to obtain will never do this. An addict is a well practiced deceiver motivated by their own selfish desires. I listened to many many people who truly wanted me to quit drugs. You cannot reason yourself out of a perceived dependency, you need to reconstruct your life from the rubble you have left with the awareness that the substance will destroy you and possibly those who you love.

@@canwelearn2290 I’m sorry to hear that! I can only imagine what it must do to a family. I was the addict in my family so I was the one causing the grief… My folks faith was a comfort to them during this time. Now that I have come full circle and have had enough time and space to develop perspective. I have come to faith as well…

It's hard listening to these people sitting in theor ivory tower like they know what they are talking about.

​@Gar the problem is, the addicts are in and out of hospitals because they OD. You need to get them into rehab centers before they OD, and supplying them with drugs to OD isn't helping. Walk the streets of East Van if you need to see it for yourself.

Why is it any of your business if other people want to 'break the cycle of addiction' or not. I don't know about you, but I find the hypocrisy of people saying that it was 'their right' to infect other people with a deadly virus in saying no vaccines being mandatory due to this made up 'right' of 'medical choice' but then turning around and telling drug addicts that their choice is a crime and they must get treatment (which often involves forced medication.) Drug addicts primarily hurt themselves, covidiots killed other people. If you're a covidiot yourself (like smarmy Poilievre) don't tell others what they can and can't do.

She's 72. Age related cognitive decline at the wheel for Canadas mental health pushing cheap opioids . Yeah ...terrifying !

She needs some

hahaha

That would explain why our Healthcare system is going down the toilet.

Give her some good stuff! It would be free from our taxes!

Hypothesis politics 101. The socialism types live for it.

She hid in government and finally she got promoted to a top position. I've been around those people. Their either never have had any direct experience in the subject matter or they sucked at the application of their craft. She's Yasir Afafat. If you can stick around long enough and crazier people come after you, you can look sane.

I watched this when it first happened and it showed what I always felt about the MP was true. Thankfully, she is out of politics. She kept saying these safe places save lives without a shred of evidence. The 2023 stats show how completely wrong she was. Good riddance.

Canadians pay tens of millions millions every year to police and enforce the war on drugs. Either way, you pay.

Are you sick of giving oil companies big tax breaks letting them pollute the landscape at will. They make huge profits they don't need tax breaks and make them clean up there mess. Remember they ARE TAR SANDS not OIL FIELDS.

@@gar1786 Bad comparison . Paying for education benefits everyone .

​@Gar so you agree safe supply is dumb, because even if they use safe supply drugs it's still effecting their health in negative ways.

as a tax payer i'm sick of paying for drug addicts, repeat offenders, revolving jail system, free drugs for drug addicts, and lgbtq+++++xyz whatever rights and and pedofiles performing sex acts for kids in school. so yeah i'm sick of paying for bad decisions. Pay for education, pay for mental health, safe consumption sights is brutal a drain on society, and now you have this crap in the homes seriously Get some common sense end the government being drug dealers, and agenda pusher, and give them treatment if they want treatment

He hasn’t got a clue what he’s talking about.

​@@GavinLiamLoganeven if that was the case, he would still be the 100 times better than the current useless leader.

@@GavinLiamLogan "He hasn’t got a clue what he’s talking about." example?

The UK needs Pierre, A man that talks common sense!

Its certainly working well so far.

Harsh laws bring an addict to his death not his bottom.

The reality is this isn’t 2008 anymore. Rock bottom is overdose death and it comes easy.

Best to keep stupid opinions like that to yourself

@@stuliw272 Thanks for the compliment, but I'm married.

Bennet is such a defunct tool but as an MP of the LibNDP party, she cannot see past the envelope of her own federal pension package

The doctors that over prescribed OxyContin and these cretins giving out free drugs should be held accountable. THEY did this

I was prescribed hydromorphone after a surgery a few weeks ago. It barely did anything pain-wise, and I'm not used to taking pain medication or anything of the sort. So for an addict, I don't see how hydromorphone can help with anything. 😅

Hydromorphone has helped me return to work while living with severe unrelenting pain. I've never stole anything or committed a crime while on opiates , to the contrary I saved a life while on opiates on the Gauley River in West Virginia and saved two lives when a couples car flipped over down a mountain pass and got them out of the car before it started on fire. If I was stuck in bed because of pain they would have died.

thanks for the insight. Have no knowledge about this at all.

Agree

@@aavanassan lol she looks more like the wicked witch than Freeland does.

​@@therealpvc2541 I just told my husband the same thing ..😂😂😂😂

She won't make it to the appointment if she doesn't get opioids it sounds like though lol.

Cos she’s passed her prime long ago due to TruDoped poison 😢😢😢😢

She appears to be a complete sociopath.

😂😂truth

He is intelligent, calculated, and the new prime minister

Do you also love how many lies per minute he tells or are you too scared,or lazy,to look anything up after a long day of not watching the news?

​@@puttinfoilinyourhat.6174 boy, that's an aggressive response to an extremely neutral comment. always remember that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar 😉

@@gingersnap8036 aww,heres a tissue for when yer done clutching your pearls.

@@puttinfoilinyourhat.6174I’d be willing to bet you can not state or provide one single source for the “lies” you claim

Cheap drugs or crime Take your pick .. A homeless addict most with mental issues .Ok let's " return them to their families" as Pierre stated . Rehab first Housing and ongoing after care for addiction issues. Mental health doctors . A monthly cheque to keep them surviving. Education and training programs. Employment assistance.. Earlier govts tried all this from a starting point being prison to reduce crime . Harper scrapped it all and just built more jails. The cons only care about the rich.. Sure as heck not some poor lost drug addict...

Not even cheap - _free._

there studies that say otherwise...just say it...you dont want your taxes to pay for other people's drug

@@p33t3rpark3r Studies say a lot of things, many of them wrong. All kinds of research is corrupt, botched, can't be replicated. Graduate degrees are handed out largely as participation trophies or like unpaid internships that rich kids land. You didn't know that?🤨

​@@p33t3rpark3rtheir "studies" show that the drug problem has only gotten worse.

You studied addiction and then go on to make false statements. Methadone saves lives. Yes it is liquid handcuffs. It helps some people. MAT is effective up to 40%.

This comment needs more likes!

Sad that 99% of people in these comments, including the addicts seem to have little sympathy and empathy. For every person that gets off opiates 99 wont and a a good portion of them will OD. Relapse rate is 99% for opiates.

It's a bad business model because, it's a business!...The cartel IS the government...they make money by keeping people sick...you won't convince me otherwise. I have lived it and I see it daily. Here in Canada treatment can run between 20 to 45 thousand dollars PER month. The average person who suffers with addiction needs a minimum of six months...you do the math...and these are all private unregulated facilities...anything government funded has wait list that are horribly long and are only 30 to 60 days at best...the average being 30 days. Its disgusting. The liberal government created a problem and their solution to the problem is subpar at best. Shove the statistics because they are fudged like every other static they hang their hats on.

It's a shame that people don't actually look into how complicated it is to have effective "rehab". As you've stated, it's not a one-day process, and Mr. Poilievre certainly makes it seem that way. It would be interesting to have real statistics on the effectiveness of rehab centers vs. the current solution.

We're in trouble if PEEPEE the fascist clown is our opposition leader and in position to become the next PM. Uh-oh.

I’m more worried about PP being our Prime Minister. That guy has way too many Red Flags.

Mental Health is in shambles. Sad state of affairs.

@@slickrick3498 name 3 red flags you have 24 hours or your point becomes invalid and irrelevant

"mental health minister erupts into fit of rage"

In Vancouver it literally is legal. And the police can’t do anything legally.

Where? Which places? Forest Hill, Rosedale, etc. where the tax dodgers buy it?

It is legal in BC but BC is not Ontario.

Someone literally blew crack in my face walking tmdown the street the other day in Toronto

Thought it was legal in Toronto now as well? Very sad. Vancouver already did it

Too much drugs 😂

in more ways than one

Hes unfit to be Pm or leader of the opposition

Better off gone

@@thesupremeveggieburger427 you’re going to be unfit in general in a few years. There’s a reason there are more ex vegans than actual vegans

The treatment options available for addiction are garbage though. By far the best long-term solution is methadone. Safe supply is essentially expanding methadone programs to include a few more opioids that are a bit stronger, for folks whom methadone does not work for. The issue we face though is that unlike methadone, safe supply is being targeted towards the homeless and the waaaaaay down and out addicts of society and not the main population of addicts, and unfortunately homeless people tend to scheme any way they possibly can to make money so they sell their meds, buy cheap fentanyl and make a small profit as well. They need to be forced to consume the dilaudid/hydromorphone on site in front of the pharmacist, just like methadone patients are forced to do. The thing is, you'll find once you do force a rule like that, interest in this program will fall, because right now it is just a means by which the homeless population diverts pharmaceuticals to addicts who prefer clean drugs, and the homeless just keep using their dirty fentanyl. I tried to get on safe supply when I was hooked on fentanyl and ODing all the time. I was not allowed on it because I was not homeless, the message was basically "Come back when your life completely and utterly falls apart, and hopefully you survive until then, then you can get on hydromorphone" it is the stupidest implementation ever. Reasonable, responsible, semi-well-adjusted addicts are denied a safe, clean supply, but the absolute bottom of the barrel addicts who contribute ZERO to society are given the free clean drugs. Completely backwards. Should be trying to save the addicts who still have some hope and wits about them, most homeless fentanyl addicts are beyond saving at this point. Sucks to hear, but it is true, they're the types who would sell their mother for a hit. We need to support people who can semi-function in their addiction, with programs like this. Those who are homeless, who've lost their mind from drugs, they're the ones who need FORCED rehabilitation because they will NEVER lead a reasonable life on drugs. Never ever ever. They've proven how woefully incapable they are at managing drugs. It is either get clean, or they're gonna die. Other addicts though, who seem to handle drugs better, could really benefit from a safe, clean, cheap supply of drugs. Now methadone is working again for me and I have nearly 9 months clean, but I nearly died again in March 2023 before I got better with methadone, and my physical health took a massive hit during the last months of using fentanyl. All that could have been avoided if I was even allowed to go on safe supply, but I wasn't allowed on, because I don't completely give up every single last piece of my integrity to my drug addiction. I feel we need way more support for the addicts who maintain levels of functionality and who want to do good, and we need to start ignoring these absolute waste of space ones. They are terrible, conniving, thieving, disgusting individuals, I know many - but I also know many addicts with huge hearts and who don't screw people over and who are loved by friends and family and those folks barely get NOTHING in terms of government or healthcare supports. It all goes to the complete down and outs who rob, lie, cheat, steal, deal drugs, abandon their kids, etc. We waste so much resources on the worst off 5% or so of drug addicts that we leave behind the other 95% who aren't total wastes of time..

And how many have died since this "harm reduction" plan has been in place?

@EpicForeverFriends 0 seconds ago Yes fix the mental health, bring back safe mental asylum ike Tranquilal fix the sick dont put them in jail or purgatory

I’m a MD. Board verified in addiction/internal medicine, and emergency medicine. These government programs are killing people in masses. Why they would purposely spend money in safe injection sites, clean needles, etc is beyond me. It is having the NET effect of killing a lot more people AND getting a lot more people addicted. Politicians don’t have common sense. Speeding in cars kills. This is the equivalent of giving every person that likes to speed a Lamborghini, Porsche, and a helmet, and encouraging them to drive-200mph everywhere. Cause it’s “safer” right? I also completely disagree with the legalization of marijuana. Long know as “ the gateway drug”. It hasn’t lost that title. Money should be spent on detox and rehab programs (AND NO, I DON’T OWN ONE)

It's putting powerful drugs in the hands of children 🤬

The price is wrong bob and your right thats what and who brings her home...

@@xaviermachiavelli5236 huh?

Ignorance isn't an excuse 😅 Try using critical thought instead of your gut.

Should be held accountable lol. Another fan boy of the prison industrial complex. Or is that where they get "treatment". Pierre's buddies can all pay for their treatment. The addicted middle class are just out of sight. Most of these politicians are hyped up on amphetamines as well.

safe supply does save lives 100% and easier access lowers crime rates

I use opiates daily for chronic pain. I've never committed a crime while using using them to the contrary I've saved lives while on opiates. Once in Gauley river WV and another time two lives in Colorado mountain pass. If I was stuck in bed at home due to pain they would have died.

@@kahlernygard809you sound like a paid endorsement.

@@kahlernygard809 We're not debating medically prescribed pain medications. We just don't wanna give free heroin to addicts on the streets.

@@kahlernygard809Considering you keep copy and pasting this exact comment and you are a bot.

@unamusedarchitect1646 nope, just someone who cares about the right for one to relieve their suffering through medicine of thier choice. This war on drugs is anti freedom and I'll fight against tyranny every chance I get

Shhhhhhhhhhh, don't be speaking any truths here, you Trumper.

You make a pretty good point, but did you consider that giving away drugs is EVIDENCE BASED? Case closed.

Who would of thought??

But, they’re safe!

Radical thought: Maybe we shouldn’t involve women in politics. The few that are exceptional thinkers can’t compensate for the majority of naive, „well-meant“ female politicians. Alice Weidel is somebody I'd vote for any time, any place.

Isn't that the truth! Dishonorable is what they are!

Positive reinforcement of wicked and evil people by other wicked and evil people. We need to disband the Federal government. We are basically paying them billions of dollars to destroy our lives.

True

Right? LOL

I cringe everytime they say right honorable Prime Minister

Yes those crazy narcissists... especially when they're called out on their evil. 🤫

lmao right? rather ironic, with a job title like that

It stops them from using incrediblh dangerous "street" drugs and can offer an avenue to social support. We know, statistically, that rehab alone DOES NOT WORK.

You are a slow individual

It is demonic ideology to destroy human life, especially that of the First Nations Canadians, and replace them with other nations. If we do research, we will notice that for every 10 drug addicts on the street, 7 out of 10 are native Canadians! Safe drugs don't stop people from using drugs, but they fast-track their deaths.

It might stop them from mugging me to get money for their drugs. Not that Poiliviere would care about that.

It’s called harm reduction. Safe supply isn’t there to try to get people off drugs but rather have an alternative supply for those that are already going to be doing it that is not stepped on. It’s factual and completely evidence based.

There are many things people can be addicted to, and any of them can ruin a person's life if they take over completely. In the case of illicit drugs, it isn't the addiction that's the main thing that ruins people's lives, it's that the drugs are illegal.

There being ruined by taking both parents out of the home for 40% of a week's hours... one parent could support a family before... but yay crony capitalism...

@Samm Salvey Strawman argument with 'addicted to crossword puzzles.' Change that to 'addicted to video games' or 'addicted to say Tik Tok' and yes, for many people it's no different. The same parts of the brain light up, the same addiction and obsession. There are many users of cocaine and other harder drugs who are in the middle class, who have full time jobs and who are successful because they have access to these drugs without having to resort to crime and with minimal danger of being arrested. Your arguments are based on stigma and stereotypes from 'reefer madness.' of course, beyond that, if people choose to ruin their lives with whatever, in a free society, as long as they don't directly harm you, it's none of your business.

@Samm Salvey Also, your way isn't working (or what I presume is your way with prohibition.) Because the drugs are illegal there is no quality control, this is the cause of the vast majority of drug deaths, from drugs laced with fentanyl. It would be wrong to say that nobody dies from alcohol, but certainly there are many less deaths from alcohol because nobody has to drink wood alcohol, for instance, to 'get a buzz.' Of course, alcohol addiction also destroys lives, but I don't hear anybody seriously suggesting bringing in alcohol prohibition. or bringing back alcohol prohibition if they're an American. People recognize that with alcohol, prohibition doesn't work. It doesn't with hard drugs either. Seriously, to say the, I guess, next worst addiction to drugs is to crossword puzzles really showed the silliness of your argument. People can ruin their lives with many addictions, but anybody who sees what's going on must have status quo bias or something to not recognize that by far the vast majority of drug deaths are a direct result of them being illegal.

Wait till the BC experiment is done and Heroin and cocaine are legal in all NDP/Liberal provinces.

News reports of talking to random people on the street who agree with him is not data. The minister for mental health pointed out peer reviewed studies that showed how the current policy is improving outcomes

@@JonReing 300% increase in overdoses = improving outcomes Yeah right.

@@JonReing where are they?

@@JonReing Even though there are evidently more drug overdose deaths despite providing a “safer environment?”

@@Nighttale233 source please. Need academic peer review article

What about mad, screaming Karen?

Take her back to the nursing home! Clueless

I think she had a stroke someone should call an ambulance.

No doubt if i yelled like that at my job, id lose it.

​@@stephendavis6606she is giving me a stroke

I think she seriously has Mental Problems

She’s f up

@@harpbasi5366 PeePee is a raving lunatic. Just look at him rage and froth at the mouth.

100% spot on👏🏼

Mental minister is MENTAL!

Tories screwed Mental Health services for decades & jacked up the War on Drugs, instead of rehab But you’re mad that we aren’t criminalizing harder? Brilliant

SHHHHHHSHHHHHH it's a secret!

Because if it were top notch she'd be out of a job and in a long term care home

Amazing how many like you have popped up as pharmacist here in Canada and just in time to dole out opioids to old stock Tommy McMook's , futt me in all what a $troke of LcUK lad'$.

@@AstroBear11 It's a medical term. Get back to class.

You don't stop people ingesting poison by giving them more poison.

The leader of the opposition is worthless. His way is the drug war and private prisons.

​​@@AstroBear11 that is the actual medical term. I assume you don't know much about medical licensing or practices.

Conservative conspiracy theories far worse...liberals have actual facts.

I think that someone else used to say something similar, about 80 years ago. I believe the name was Goebbels.

But it’s in the past 😂😂😂😂

@@paolobenedicti1319 If you repeat a lie often enough it will become truth. JG

Catherine McKenna has said this

The wef and ccp pay them

it’s like Ohio now there they hide guns under tents unbelievable!

im sure she has spent a lot of time there. i have. you cant arrest your way out of a drug problem. safe supply and social services are the most cost effective and save the most lives.

​@@youtubeuser206 There is not safe supply. Calling hard-core drugs safe is the most ironic thing I've heard. There has been 300% more overdose deaths today compared to 8 years ago. Could you explain to me how this approach has saved lives?

They did do a study on it and it’s working for a lot of ppl that are taking the safe supply, it’s not hard to find out, well for normal thinking ppl, conservatives just live in their safe space bubble! Lol

@Dave G The issue is that in Canada, they have only implemented 1/3 of the study in comparison to what they did in Portugal. In other countries, in order to obtain the supply, you are obligated to sit down in a class session with a therapist for hours and forced to be productive. Only then could you obtain the drugs provided by the government. It seems that you think you know more than you actually do without actually reading the study or knowing the situation.

How typical though

She recently stepped down. Please support the Conservatives Candidate in her riding.

Does this make you a Bigot because you think old people are useless. Some members were very disrespectful with their catcalling and the reason some of there ingrates should not be there.

Maybe for Canadians. For us Yanks it’s Dianne Feinstein and/or Mitch McConnell

Actually we term limits for MORONIC voters.

Nah, just vote them out.

And Trudeau’s China buddies who are bringing the deadly drugs into Canada so he can eliminate the old stock and vulnerable.

Exactly right I know myself as Im also a friend of Bill W.😊 happy recovery 👍👍

The “soft” approach? Lol What’s your plan? Private prisons like the US? Because their “tough” approach has worked so wonderfully?

@@chadsimmons4496 who says you need to put them in prison? Unless you are admitting that these addicts are dangerous and is a threat to the society unless they are fed drugs.

@@cabbagedestroyer1693 Poilievre says that. That was the CPC plan in 2015. Private prison expansion for a plant… a plant big pharma spent billions lobbying against legalizing. Conservatives aren’t serious liberal critics.

So sorry for your loss! Did you know that Biden's open border policies are costing 300 lives per day of young people overdosing on fentenyl? Not to mention illegal guns, criminals, drug dealers!

EXACTLY. I HAVE FAM TOO. SORRY TO HEAR.

I am so sorry for your loss.

😢

Yeah i'm in AB and during the lock down there was more tinfoil at the transit stations then i ever seen before, of course for fentanyl. Everyone started doing the zoombi hang. It's still like that here now. That was not around so hard core 3 years before the government over reach, fear morngoring communist lock downs. Conservatives should be ashamed of themselves for lock downs too.

because the war on drugs worked right? all the laws, all the police, all the money spent, it worked right? it worked where in the world? us? uk? china? russia?

​@@theeouttheres3083 it seems to have gotten far worse without it. Not a good augment comrade. Not at all.

wackier than the Freeloader.

​@@theeouttheres3083 no the war on drugs didn't work but you think flooding the streets with legal drugs which end up sold on the street is better? I've seen it myself witnessed it many times and watched as those people who would their drugs for stronger drugs od.

She is not evil. She knows the evidence and is passionate about it. I love that passion.

like providing food for ppl starving or shelter for ppl without a home. Better when we had gangs run the drug trade. so much better getting it from big drug cartels and biker gangs.

Speak for yourself.

@@nuxkamina at least the tax payers weren't paying the gangs.

@@InterestedCitizen they probably were but since you wanna but in, you sound like an addict. Just so you know.

@@nuxkamina providing free food and housing doesn’t help people either. All it leads to is more people asking for free food and housing.

I think she learned that hollow outrage from her drama teacher.

Better yet she should place the safe injection sites in the trudoe ndp upper class areas of town and around thier private schools...amazing how people who have no experience or pay the price for the decisions they make .

Yeah, why would she get emotional due to people dying. She needs to be more robotic like PP and pretend to care.

@@seansimpson8758 it's the tax paid additive drugs handed out causing the people to die. Factual information and just looking at places that implement free drugs are 10x worse off..liberals ndp use only emotional propaganda because they can't debate Factual information.

Well said

It’s so much more complex than that. Conservatives thrive on simple single variable solutions that don’t work. Ignoring the problem seems illogical to me. Getting help for people who don’t want it doesn’t work. Plus, there are more than a few different reasons for the rise in addiction, and safe government drugs are only part of it. They’ve given half measured solutions where people are still exposed to dangerous environments in order to access what they believe is their medicine.

​@@josslyn333 handing out more is not ignoring it. It's explicitly increasing it. Starting your point by just calling people dumb is childish and doesn't change any minds. Stop being so hateful

@@WiseOwl_1408 it’s not calling anyone disabled. It’s pointing out a manipulation tactic that’s being used.

The drug cartels are making a killing. It's not the Liberals who keep letting them infiltrate. The police need to step up.

And why is this t available? Drug cartels making a massive profit from it. Doctors prescribing opiates like crazy.

She believes the science. Government science.

Why, because she can't stand little PP's manipulative ways? She's great!!

@@InterestedCitizenfree drugs free drugs let’s help the addicts by giving away free drugs! Keep the zombies fed. Don’t let them die let them stay zombies and steal, murder and litter the streets with needles and feces.

@@InterestedCitizen and yet their policy has failed

​@@InterestedCitizenshes going to have a stroke. But everyone knows that when you give out drugs like candy it doesnt reduce drug use at all. More kids are getting on it in Vancouver because it is now cheap and plentiful.

those liberal politicians don`t care about addicts. Addicts are a pawn to them, look how nice we are, look how good and kind we are and how evil those guys are, it`s so sinister and most people fall for it who are weak minded. And as a feminist I have to admit it's mostly women look at that house! UGHHHHH lol

Judging by how you spell, I think you’re the one who’s secretly a fentanyl* addict. Calling your daughter a junkie, clearly shows you’ve most likely influenced her into being an addict.

@@AllisonMoon-SheWandersFerali It does say a lot about the issue. Ive called all drug addict junkies in the last 40 years. Just because it hits close to home doesnt mean I'll change the language i use. And if you knew how to read I used the term drug addicted when i referred to her and Junkies when i referred to all the others.

You can't help someone who doesn't want it. Those that do have limited options, and inevitability wind up in the same position. Governments shut down psychiatric facilities, shut down programs that taught them a trade so they could then enter society and thrive. Shut down access to mental health and addiction recovery programs. Safe supply is the more important than tainted drugs are what are driving the overdoses up.

@@AllisonMoon-SheWandersFeral People being addicted to drugs has nothing to do with ones upbringing. most people with horrible childhoods dont become drug addicts. People become drug addicts because they cant cope with society. They can be helped with tough love and not with excuses and government handouts and free drugs and injection centers

Yeah, she definitely sounds and looks like she’s on some sort of drugs

Lmao

Her😮tweaking and eye twitching is enough for me to go "👎👎, This Woman Should Not Be in A Political Position of ANY KIND OF Power" 👈😢

That's how a few of these crooks make their pay...

Thank you! Finally, some sense. I hate how political discourse in our country has just turned to anger and virtue signaling... on all sides! All we see is this performance crap, instead of dealing with the many real problems facing our country from a place of evidence and rational thinking. Instead of policy, we get incessant buzz words.

It’s become like the country south of our border

Nope not any liberal should be in power

Amen!

She a nut like trudope

PP is talking about forced rehab (incase you didn’t read through the political jargon) which is already been proven to not work effectively. His tactic isn’t to help addicts is to get them off the streets so we can forget about them. Until they do something that ends up with jail time. What is the goal? To help addicts or lock them up so we don’t have to see them? What is food for thought is PP opinions on the prison system. Always bashing Trudeau for easy access to bail, heavier punishments, Paul Bernardo. He seems to be really in tune with wanting more people in jail and keeping people in jail. Even criticizing JT for not using his power to overturn Corrections Department rulings. I’m wondering if some private prison systems are in the future if he get elected?

@@bobmcbob9603 forced rehab is very expensive and is highly ineffective. I’m not saying tent cities and safe injection sites are better but maybe the two sides could actually work together and figure out a blended way between the two. To go back to a way that is already known not to work doesn’t seem like the common sense approach.

@@jhenz1926 I apologize the emotion of the issue can flare up in me occasionally. I agree you cannot force someone to quit longer than you can isolate them from the entire world. I really do believe though that individuals must face the consequences of their actions. I do also believe that people can change and that change can only be effected in a contrite humbled individual call it broken if you will.

if he had access to a safe supply of opioids untainted from fentanyl he would be alive

For seniors they givings very poor medicals to shame Trudeau 🇨🇦💔👎👎❓❓❓😡👿 💙💙💙PPC💙💙💙we need help

@@youtubeuser206 re read my last line...and tell me how adding fuel puts out fires

​@@youtubeuser206 if was in a treatment center he wouldn't need drugs from the street. Treatment includes weening off drugs with safe drugs, not just an endless supply of safe drugs.

@@abalister6661 another reason could be the learning environment, bullies at school don't help either. Or just need a tutor to get through school.

I'd call it progressive policies.... Liberals didn't used to be insane. JT sure pushed them far from the center.

​@@WiseOwl_1408 agree

It was horrible when I left Vancouver 13 years ago and it's gotten steadily worse. Time for tough love.

no, everyone should look at the facts, statistics and data...thankfully looking out your window at a street isn't how this issue is managed.

​@@nuxkamina no but iboeing clear signs that weren't there previously is a start no ? Continue to ignore or make excuses for drug addict behavior the only place for them is rehab or prison , if you're more than inclined to help them out why not open up your home ?

All of which are peoples' choices.

​@@bradm6287 Kids choice?

Access to opioids is not a government problem.

@@chadsimmons4496 sure it is. It’s called public safety.

@@matti8894 public safety is called regulation actually… something conservatives strongly oppose… but the opioid crisis is not a government problem. It’s a for-profit pharma problem.

Very well said.

You've been duped. The problem isn't that your feelings are getting hurt by people getting high in your neighborhood. The problem is that people are dieing due to increasing levels of fentanal in the illicit drug supply. Safe supply aims to stop people dieing. f your feelings

Add to that over dose cases has never come down

This is serious matter indeed

Zero evidence safe injection sites cause crime.

Agree - the free drugs and narcan is rewarding drug addicts. It’s insane.

Addicts will use no matter what. Making sure someone does not die because they have safe drugs is not enabling.

There IS no treatment, thats the problem. The system ALREADY is flooded with drugs, and drugs that kill. So its better to have drugs aroudn that DON"T. To say otherwise is to say you WANT these people to simply die.

Excuse me, it is the drug cartels who are infiltrating.