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House Hansard - 198

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 16, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 198 - May/16/23
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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Context: House Hansard - 198 - May/16/23
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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Context: House Hansard - 198 - May/16/23
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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Context: House Hansard - 198 - May/16/23
Hon. Kerry-Lynne Findlay (South Surrey—White Rock, CPC)
  • May/16/23 3:11:19 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the so-called safe supply policies of the Liberal-NDP coalition are deadly. Seven people a day are dying in B.C. alone. Unsafe tent cities abound. Kids are being sold the safe supply drugs and overdosing at an alarming rate. Then users have the cash to buy deadly fentanyl. Our sons and daughters are paying the price. When will the Liberals make treatment beds a priority, not free hard drugs, so that we can bring home our loved ones drug-free?
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