Former B.C. chief coroner Lisa Lapointe threw her weight behind a BC Green campaign pledge to expand safer supply of opioids and other drugs.
Global's Richard Zussman takes us through the first significant policy announcements from BC NDP Leader David Eby and BC Conservative Leader John Rustad.Former British Columbia chief coroner Lisa Lapointe has emerged from retirement to throw her weight behind a BC Green Party campaign pledge to expand safer supply of opioids and other drugs to deal with the province’s deadly overdose crisis.
Green Leader Sonia Furstenau says other party leaders have indulged in “dehumanizing rhetoric” against drug users that she says is unacceptable.Furstenau says a broader system of prescribed safer supply of drugs, including fentanyl, is needed, as well as a “demedicalized model” to reduce stigma and barriers in the current system.
Before her retirement, Lapointe lamented that the emergency never received a “a co-ordinated response commensurate with the size of crisis.”In her final months as chief coroner, a review panel recommended providing controlled drugs without prescriptions but the idea was almost immediately rejected by the provincial government.
Elsewhere on the campaign trail, NDP Leader David Eby is in Terrace in B.C.’s northwest looking to win back the Skeena riding being vacated by Ellis Ross, who held the seat for BC United but will now run in the federal election for the Conservatives.The BC NDP announced it had nominated candidates in all 93 ridings for the Oct. 19 election. The party says the slate is 60 per cent women.
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad was scheduled to spend the morning making an announcement in Kimberly, in the Kootenays, followed by a meet-and-greet 30 kilometres south in Cranbrook.A consortium of broadcasters announced the Oct. 8 debate will air from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on all major television and radio news networks and be moderated by Angus Reid Institute president Shachi Kurl.Canada ‘absolutely’ eying proposed U.S.
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