Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre introduced a motion to the House of Commons Thursday calling on the Liberal government to halt all programs providing non-toxic drugs to those suffering with addictions and redirect funding to treatment services.
“Crime and chaos, drugs and disorder rage in our streets. Nowhere is this worse than in the opioid overdose crisis that has expanded so dramatically in the last several years,” Poilievre told the House of Commons on Thursday morning.
The Conservative leader said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, backed by “tax-funded” activists, big pharma and others, is wrong to argue that providing addicted persons “powerful heroin-like drugs
