Prime minister not bailing out B.C. government from increasingly problematic political waters
B.C. New Democrats would never admit it out loud, but at this point they’d be secretly thrilled if the federal Liberal government stepped in and put the province’s decriminalization experiment out to political pasture, after months of negative consequences and publicity.
“This is a challenging situation that requires innovative responses, and figuring it out as we’re delivering these programs that are helping people is something we’re going to do in partnership . It’s not an adversarial position.”It would have been worth the short-term negative hit to the B.C.
“We were happy to support B.C. in doing this, but yeah there are real challenges and we’re going to continue to be there to work with them and try to solve it.” “Too far, too fast?” Trudeau responded. “I think the fact is we needed to be ambitious in trying to solve this. It’s not just people in Downtown Eastside or tent encampments that are dying of toxic drugs, it’s people in the suburbs, middle-class families.
But both leaders are dealing with the unexpected consequence of those decisions, in the form of rising public drug use and street disorder.
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