OTTAWA — Supervised consumption sites are just 'drug dens' that a future Conservative government would seek to close and not provide with 'a single taxpayer dollar,' Pierre Poilievre said Friday.
OTTAWA — Supervised consumption sites are just"drug dens" that a future Conservative government would seek to close and not provide with"a single taxpayer dollar," Pierre Poilievre said Friday.
A 2011 Supreme Court ruling said that closing the Vancouver operation would deprive users of their Charter rights. "Wacko politicians and the Liberals and the NDP and their supporters in the media want to make it sound like there's a constitutional obligation that we allow these drug dens anywhere they want to go up. That is not true," he said.
After they were elected in 2015, the Liberals passed their own law allowing facilities to open with more ease, citing the need to better respond to the overdose crisis. The Montreal site near Poilievre's Friday event is one of those pending federal approval. It has been given a temporary approval by the province. It is located inside the Maison Benoît-Labre, a housing project with apartments for people experiencing homelessness and living with addiction or mental health issues.
"It becomes an absolute disaster in the bathrooms of small businesses, in our parks, in our schoolyards, in the back alleys, in the backyards of people in the community."
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