An Edmonton lawyer has failed in his bid to have the Supreme Court of Canada weigh in on pausing a policy to ask clients of supervised consumption site to provide personal health-care numbers.
Posted: Apr 07, 2022 3:06 PM MT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago
The plaintiffs, Moms Stop the Harm and the Lethbridge Overdose Prevention Society, are suing the Alberta government over a new rule, which took effect at the beginning of February, that requires supervised consumption site staff to ask for provincial health care numbers. "While activists have tried to assert that usage of supervised consumption services would decline once the requirement came into effect, that is not what we have seen," Ellis said in the statement.
"One of the things we asked the Supreme Court of Canada to address is the test for injunctive relief against the government in Alberta," Nanda said. "I think there have been three requests in the last three years for the court to clarify this law because the Court of Appeal keeps coming up with different frameworks."Alberta recorded its deadliest year on record in 2021 for drug overdoses with 1,758 deaths.
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