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House Hansard - 198

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 16, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 198 - May/16/23
Mr. Francesco Sorbara (Vaughan—Woodbridge, Lib.)
  • May/16/23 2:53:16 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-48 
Mr. Speaker, it is easy to make up empty slogans and unrealistic promises, but it is harder to do the work diligently and concretely address the complex issues in order to protect Canadians and ensure our justice system is fair and efficient. Can the justice minister update this chamber on the bail legislation he promised in March and actually introduced today?
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Hon. David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)
  • May/16/23 2:53:19 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-48 
Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the hon. member for Vaughan—Woodbridge for his hard work on this issue. Canadians deserve to be safe and they deserve to feel safe. That is why today I introduced Bill C-48, a targeted bail reform bill to address violent repeat offenders, gun and knife violence, as well as gender-based violence. It is the product of collaboration with the provinces and territories. We have had input from mayors, police, parliamentarians as well as indigenous leadership and the legal community. The police associations are already reacting favourably. It is proof of what we can do when Canadians work together.
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Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • May/16/23 2:54:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Liberal inflation has sent food, housing and gas prices soaring, but there is one substance that has gone down in price by 90%: powerful opioids. After the Prime Minister announced $100 million— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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The Speaker
  • May/16/23 2:54:21 p.m.
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I am sorry, but I am going to interrupt the hon. Leader of the Opposition. We are just getting distractions from all over. I would ask him to start from the top please. Order.
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Hon. Pierre Poilievre
  • May/16/23 2:54:30 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, while the Prime Minister has sent inflation for gas, heat and groceries soaring, there is one product that has actually come down in price: powerful opioids. The Prime Minister has spent $100 million on so-called safe supply. One Global News reporter went into the street to find out where all these drugs were going. It turns out they are being resold to other addicts in order to raise the money to buy deadly fentanyl. Will the Prime Minister cancel the dollars for drugs and instead put the resources into treatment for addicts?
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Hon. Carolyn Bennett (Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • May/16/23 2:55:10 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we are pretty fed up with this fight against evidence-based programs that actually are saving lives. We cannot allow the Conservatives to take us back to the failed ideology of the past. Even Harper's adviser, Ben Perrin, thinks they are speaking nonsense. So just stop it and save lives.
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Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • May/16/23 2:55:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, no common sense. The evidence is seen in the tragic faces of addicts who lie overdosed on the pavement in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver where, after this Prime Minister spent $100 million handing out free drugs to addicts, he has led to a 300% increase in overdoses. Will he stop giving dollars for drugs and instead follow my common-sense plan to put the resources into treatment and recovery to bring our loved ones home drug free?
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Hon. Carolyn Bennett (Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • May/16/23 2:56:52 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, people are dying— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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The Speaker
  • May/16/23 2:57:00 p.m.
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Order. One person at a time in this chamber, please. The hon. minister.
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Hon. Carolyn Bennett
  • May/16/23 2:57:15 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, 46,000 overdoses have been reversed in safe consumption sites. The member says that he will stop that. I want him to speak to the parents of the people who would have been lost if there were no safe consumption sites and no safe supply. This is ridiculous.
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Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • May/16/23 2:57:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, people are dying because the minister and the Prime Minister are flooding the streets with dangerous drugs and killing these people. Since they brought in this policy, there has been a 300% increase in drug overdose deaths, and 30,000 people have lost their lives. Investigative journalists have shown that the drugs that she is funding with Canadian tax dollars are flooding the streets and being sold for a dollar— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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The Speaker
  • May/16/23 2:58:30 p.m.
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Order. I am hearing yelling on both sides. The hon. Leader of the Opposition can start from the top, please, so we can hear the whole question. I do not want to hear any screaming or shouting in the background, and then we can hear an answer as well. The hon. Leader of the Opposition.
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Hon. Pierre Poilievre
  • May/16/23 2:58:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, people are dying because the policies of the Prime Minister are killing them. His policies are flooding the streets with drugs that now go for $1 a hit. Someone can buy 26 hits of hydromorphone, which is an analog to heroin, for $30. These are drugs paid for by Canadian tax dollars under a program by the government that has led to a 300% increase in drug overdose deaths. Why will the Liberals not get some common sense, end dollars for drugs and put our people in treatment?
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Hon. Carolyn Bennett (Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • May/16/23 2:59:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, people have to stay alive long enough to get treatment. People are dying because of the toxic drug supply. Safe supply allows people to stay alive long enough. In a CMHA study— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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The Speaker
  • May/16/23 3:00:00 p.m.
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Order. Please start from the top, the same courtesy I gave to the opposition leader. The hon. minister.
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Hon. Carolyn Bennett
  • May/16/23 3:00:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, people have to stay alive long enough to get to treatment. People are dying because of the toxic, tainted drug supply. When people are on safe supply, the CMHA article from yesterday talked about how there is less drug use, fewer overdoses and less petty crime. This is an evidence-based project and program that meets the test of evidence and science, not a journalist who will only speak to the people who agree with him.
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Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • May/16/23 3:00:47 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the theory is that if we flood the streets with hydromorphone, an opioid, then people will not use more dangerous drugs like fentanyl. The reality— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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The Speaker
  • May/16/23 3:01:01 p.m.
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Order. We want it to be quiet on both sides. I want everybody to take a deep breath. We want to hear the question, as well as the answer. The hon. Leader of the Opposition, from the top.
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Hon. Pierre Poilievre
  • May/16/23 3:01:13 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the theory is that, if the Prime Minister puts $100 million of hydromorphone on the streets, people will not use more dangerous drugs. The reality is that, in both reports from the National Post and The Globe and Mail, and the data from the ground, the addicts are taking the hydromorphone, selling it to kids, and taking the profits to buy fentanyl and dying of overdoses. The kids then get bored of hydromorphone and they take the deadly fentanyl. That is why people are dying. Will the government stop the policies that are killing people and put our people in treatment instead?
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Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Lib.)
  • May/16/23 3:01:57 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, some things are just beyond the pale. Our Minister of Mental Health is one of the most respected members of this House. Unlike the Leader of the Opposition, who is a career politician and has done nothing else, she is a doctor. She devoted much of her life to delivering babies and bringing forth life. I heard the Leader of the Opposition shout across the aisle, “You are killing them.” That is shameful. That is entirely unacceptable.
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