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House Hansard - 323

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 3, 2024 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 323 - Jun/3/24
Mr. Tako Van Popta
  • Jun/3/24 9:30:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for her thoughtful comments, although I do have to take exception to them. She said that Conservatives just want to criminalize all sorts of behaviour and get the streets cleaned up and that the very saintly Liberals want to help people. Their programs are failing. That is the whole point of this. They have taken one step down a very risky path, experimenting with hard drug usage, even in public places, which has proven to be a disaster. Now they are backpedalling on that, and rightly so, because it was a failed program. The deep failure, and this is what I was getting to on what has happened to the big picture of justice in this nation, is that what people really need is help beyond that. The member said that the Liberals are doing this and that, and making announcements about it, but they are not getting very much done. I am reading from The Globe and Mail today a headline that reads, “Detox beds in B.C. routinely sit empty because of staff shortages”. That is the problem. Why is the help not there that is really needed?
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