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House Hansard - 320

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 29, 2024 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Gérard Deltell (Louis-Saint-Laurent, CPC)
  • May/29/24 9:18:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, my questions will be for the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions. To address the opioid crisis, the government launched a pilot project a few years ago. Could the minister tell us in which province this pilot project was carried out?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Gérard Deltell
  • May/29/24 9:19:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, which province requested a pilot project to deal with the opioid crisis?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Gérard Deltell
  • May/29/24 9:21:57 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, 2,546 people have died in British Columbia as a result of the opioid crisis. How many more people would it have taken for the government to act more quickly?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Ryan Williams
  • May/29/24 9:25:52 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, is the minister aware of the opioid mortality rate in the Belleville and Bay of Quinte region?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Ryan Williams
  • May/29/24 9:26:07 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, does the minister know the opioid mortality rate in Ottawa, Toronto and North Bay?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Ryan Williams
  • May/29/24 9:26:22 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the opioid mortality rate in Belleville, Ontario, is nearly double that of Ottawa, Toronto and North Bay. It was 250 deaths per 100,000 people in the first half of 2023, compared with 150 per 100,000 people for Ottawa, Toronto and Hamilton. Does the minister find that acceptable?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Ryan Williams
  • May/29/24 9:27:14 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the answer is zero. What is more, the number of opioid poisoning-related ER visits to Belleville General Hospital is more than three times higher than the five-year average. After nine years, there are no treatment facilities to bring our loved ones home drug-free. What is the government's plan to fund and measure success for the crisis affecting Belleville?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Chris Bittle
  • May/29/24 9:41:41 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I have been hearing a question to the Minister of Health again. I have been listening with interest throughout this debate, and I take the Conservatives at their word that they are concerned about the opioid crisis. They are seeing it in their communities, as we are seeing it in all of our communities, affecting people across the community. I went on a ride-along with my local fire department, and we got a call: vital signs absent. We raced down to Montebello Park. The image that burns into my brain is the legs of a resident of St. Catharines sticking out of the stall in the washroom in Montebello Park. Paramedics brought that person back, as paramedics, firefighters and first responders are heroically doing across the country. However, I was wondering if the minister could comment on what we are hearing in response to what I believe is health care: addiction and mental health. I know the Conservatives say that it is health care, but what I am hearing is just a repackaged version of what we tried in the seventies, eighties and nineties, which was “Just say no”. The Minister of Health talked about Newt Gingrich and the common-sense revolution, the harsh law-and-order penalties. We have tried to solve this as a society, through—
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