Leader Kevin Falcon: 'I think the right thing to do is recognize that a small cohort of population needs to be removed compassionately from the streets, involuntarily if necessary...'
B.C.’s Opposition United party continued to outflank the New Democrat government on the addictions crisis this week, releasing the first election promise for involuntary treatment and ratcheting up the pressure on the NDP to do the same.
“There are people in the streets today, we've all seen them, that have severe untreated mental health and or addiction issues, that are not able or capable of making decisions in their own best interest,” Falcon said in an interview. B.C. New Democrats considered a similar idea for teens in 2020 but then abandoned it out of fear of traumatizing children. Since then, there have been several stories of parents unable to force their teens into addiction care, who then fatally overdosed.
“I just feel like if you were harming yourself in any other way, our response would be different and we wouldn’t send you back out into the street to die,” he added.But once Eby became premier, Indigenous leaders, civil liberties groups, the chief coroner, the provincial health officer, and others piled on criticism that forcing people to undergo addictions treatment was a violation of their rights and would backfire. Eby backed down.
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