Ben Perrin
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UBC law professor; "Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial" (book and podcast); "Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis" (book)
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"Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial" is officially released today!
Get your copy now:
Amazon:
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Your favourite local bookstore
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As PM Harper's former top justice advisor, I used to agree with
@jkenney
and
@fordnation
that supervised consumption sites are a bad idea. I was wrong.
It isn’t illicit drugs that are killing people, it’s our lack of compassion. Here's why...
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False Claim
#3
by
@PierrePoilievre
: addictions are a result of "woke Liberal and NDP policies"
Truth: addictions are caused by genetic factors, peer influence, concurrent mental health disorders, and trauma
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Paul Wells' take on the
@PierrePoilievre
opioid crisis video:
"he doesn’t have a damned clue what he’s talking about. Or he’s hoping you won’t".
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Today on Parliament Hill
#safersupply
@Carolyn_Bennett
takes down
@PierrePoilievre
:
"Even Harper's [former] advisor Ben Perrin thinks they're speaking non-sense. So just stop it and save lives."
Read the evidence on how safer supply saves lives:
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Remember Umar Zameer's case the next time a politician like
@PierrePoilievre
or
@fordnation
says we need "jail not bail" as a default
There's a presumption of innocence in our constitution for good reason
P.S. ~80% of people in Ontario jails are awaiting trial
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FACT CHECK
The Prime Minister does NOT have the authority under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to decide where an individual person serves their prison sentence
See also: rule of law; political interference with administration of justice
Paul Bernardo is the worst monster in Canada. He should rot in a maximum security prison for the rest of his life.
Trudeau has the power to make this happen. Stop passing the buck.
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This op/ed did not age well.
Like so many op/eds touting the "Alberta model" of treatment without harm reduction.
Today, it was revealed by the Alberta government's own data that deaths have skyrocketed under the "Alberta model", rising 46% comparing April 2022 to April 2023
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@PierrePoilievre
FACT CHECK
The Prime Minister does NOT have the authority under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to decide where an individual person serves their prison sentence
See also: rule of law; political interference with administration of justice
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BREAKING NEWS
#Barrie
backs down from proposed bylaw outlawing giving food and water to those in need
Thank you
@ChrisNayler
and others whose peaceful protest sparked a national uproar against this immoral and heartless proposal
Good news - our advocacy worked. Barrie City Council has backed down on their cruel by-law proposal for now.
Bad news - they continue to shift the blame from themselves to the orgs and people who support our unhoused neighbours.
We must continue to fight for housing for all.
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How to wage war on the poor:
STEP 1: Make it illegal to be homeless
STEP 2: Make it illegal to give food and temporary shelter to the homeless
This is happening in
#Barrie
Ontario this week. Not the Canada I want to live in.
Welp. They're doing it.
#Barrie
City Council are set to pass a bylaw this Wednesday night that criminalizes providing survival items to unhoused people on public property, with zero public engagement. It's undemocratic and it's mean. This is not how we take care of each other.
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"
@PierrePoilievre
is carving out new territory here, at least by Canadian standards. He seems to have untethered himself completely from the verifiable facts on some pretty important issues"
via
@torontostar
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I was critical of
@ABDanielleSmith
Bill 1 as threatening the rule of law and being unconstitutional and now I've been blocked
This demagogue is terrifying
This anti-democratic autocracy isn't the Alberta I was born and raised in
#abpoli
#cdnpoli
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Unregulated drug deaths began skyrocketing while
@PierrePoilievre
was in PM Harper's Cabinet
Why? Shift to illicit fentanyl spurred by the "crack down" on pharmaceuticals (e.g. Oxycontin) and "war on drugs" disruptions/seizures
Since then, the genie has been out of the bottle
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Today,
#Alberta
released months of withheld data on unregulated drug deaths - keeping it secret before and during provincial election
Tragically - but not surprisingly - dramatic increase in deaths
April 2023 deadliest month on record
Claims Alberta model "fixed" things a sham
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@PierrePoilievre
This is so disappointing. I used to think the same things, Pierre. Then I met with people in recovery and loved ones of people whose kids died of overdose. And I read the research. All of them said criminalizing people who use drugs made it worse. This isn't a political issue.
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CTV fact checks Premier Danielle Smith live on air about her false claims re
#safersupply
“But there is evidence...There is a lot of evidence. I found four studies just in preparing for this interview that it was working. "
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From PM Harper's former Director of Communications:
"As
@PierrePoilievre
showed this week, what sells online is salacious fiction delivered with a side of snark. The new laws of digital politics are a disgrace, but they’re effective."
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#UCP
waited until the week of the Canada Day long weekend to release data showing a record-breaking number of Albertans dying from unregulated drugs
They're hoping people don't see the coverage or read the commentary that keeps rolling in.
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“I was really disgusted by it. I honestly was so disturbed to see Pierre Poilievre using people’s really desperate situation here in the city I live in as a backdrop for a political propaganda ad."
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BC Chief Coroner on
#safersupply
debate
“I feel very, very badly that they are using this as a political weapon, literally, on the bodies of 12,000 people who have died.
"...it’s reprehensible that this is a medical crisis that people are trying to politicize.”…
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Building more prisons is a costly and ineffective way to reduce crime
Research is clear: jail increases re-offending.
Plus there's this gem in the article: "81 per cent of inmates in provincial jails are awaiting trial and presumptively innocent"
Ford promises to build as many jails as needed to keep criminals behind bars
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It is wrong to use our neighbours who are homeless as political props
"Why has he not even come down and spoken to anyone here or driven by and filmed it himself?"
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"
@PierrePoilievre
is rehashing Conservative, war-on-drugs tropes that have been long since discredited...not only ineffective but costly and deadly.”
"It was a five-minute long diatribe that’s not informed by any research, evidence or expertise."
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.
@PierrePoilievre
is at it again today with a motion in the House of Commons against evidence-based public health interventions & continuing to spread lies
FACT CHECK: Toxic contaminated street drugs are what is killing Canadians - not safer supply
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BREAKING
Drug poisoning deaths INCREASED in Alberta by 46%: April 2022 (123) to April 2023 (179)
Tragic, senseless and predicted
A repudiation of
@PierrePoilievre
and
@ABDanielleSmith
- the "Alberta model" of treatment without harm reduction
Source:
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Either
@ABDanielleSmith
is lying to
#Alberta
or she is incompetent to not have been briefed on hundreds of people dying since January 2023.
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It speaks volumes that
@PierrePoilievre
has ignored requests from
@momsstoptheharm
to meet about the unregulated toxic drug crisis
Why won't he meet with families who have lost loved ones?
All he has to lose are his prejudices and stereotypes
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Sharing crack pipes spreads hepatitis C and other infectious diseases
88% of youth who smoke crack shared pipes, only 5% had access to sterile pipes from public health
Before he blames
@JustinTrudeau
, the study is from 2006-2012
Source:
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The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police recommends decriminalizing simple possession of illicit drugs
Yet,
@PierrePoilievre
wants to criminalize people who have substance use disorders
So much for making Canada the "freest country in the world"
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Motion
@PierrePoilievre
brought in the House of Commons yesterday was a disaster for him - not even mentioned on his social media
Why? He was confronted again and again with facts. He is lying to Canadians. Unregulated toxic contaminated drugs killing people - not
#safersupply
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"The Vancouver Police is not aware of any incidents in Vancouver in which safe supply has been trafficked to youth, responding to the Conservative Leader
@PierrePoilievre
and comments he's made in the House of Commons" -
@GordJohns
Full statement:
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@MarkGerretsen
I bought a $30 turkey here in Vancouver at Save On today.
If you paid $120 then you're the turkey.
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CBC’s The House today:
“Mr. Poilievre has outright lied. He has also said the reason Canadians are dying in such large numbers is because of safer supply”
CBC: “We did ask for a response…Poilievre’s’ office said they had nothing to add”
Listen (24:18):
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Make no mistake,
@PierrePoilievre
is on record supporting the criminalization of people who use drugs
Addiction isn't a crime
The war on drugs has been costly, ineffective and cruel
Decriminalizing deadly drug use is the opposite of compassionate.
Those struggling with addiction need treatment & recovery.
Drug dealers need strong policing & tough sentences.
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Yesterday, I fact-checked
@elenoresturko
for spreading misinformation on
@CBCEarlyEdition
about
#safersupply
Rather than correct the record, this former police officer who is "Shadow Minister" for mental health & addiction has responded with this.
FACT CHECK: BC United on
#safersupply
CLAIM: “during the first year that they were monitoring the risk mitigation plan, 41 people in British Columbia died of hydromorphone overdose.”
-
@elenoresturko
on
@CBCEarlyEdition
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Who supports
#safersupply
?
Canadian Association of Police Chiefs, BC chief coroner & chief medical officer, public health officials, community & business leaders, people who use drugs... “
@PierrePoilievre
calls them ‘activists’"
@GordJohns
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“The human cost of Danielle Smith’s dishonesty and incompetence is heartbreaking."
“While the death toll from preventable drug poisonings was surging ... Smith was lying to Albertans that she had solved the problem.”
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There it is: RCMP finds fentanyl being produced right here in Canada
@PierrePoilievre
’s plan was to stop it at the border
For years I’ve said you can make illicit fentanyl with basic college chemistry skills and equipment
The genie is out of the bottle…
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FACT CHECK
@PierrePoilievre
BC Chief Coroner: "no one in B.C. has died from
#safersupply
... thousands have from unregulated drugs."
"I think it’s reprehensible that this is a medical crisis that people are trying to politicize.”
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It's heart wrenching to see the hatred & judgment against people who use drugs
A study of 14 countries (including Canada) found people who use drugs had the highest level of stigma of any class of individual—worse even than those with leprosy. Let's push back.
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Confidential informant told me officials in Alberta were "squirming" over the Access to Information request we filed to get access to data on unregulated drug deaths
Today Alberta quietly released it online - confirming worst fears of skyrocketing deaths
The Alberta government
@AHS_media
has been withholding monthly data on drug poisoning deaths from the public since January 2023 - when it abruptly stopped reporting them.
I've submitted a Freedom of Information for these records. People have a right to know.
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"I will be the democratically elected prime minister, democratically accountable to the people, and they can then make the judgments themselves on whether they think my laws are constitutional"
Uh no,
@PierrePoilievre
, courts decide constitutionality
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"Insite saves lives. Its benefits have been proven."
- Supreme Court of Canada (2011)
100s of peer-reviewed studies prove supervised consumption sites save lives, yet
@PierrePoilievre
oppose them.
No amount of evidence satisfies. It is playing politics with people's lives.
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.
@PierrePoilievre
promised that treatment - not harm reduction - would "bring people home"
New data from the "Alberta model" shows that's tragically false as deaths hit record levels
We need supervised consumption sites,
#safersupply
& evidence-based treatment on-demand
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Remember "Everything Feels Broken" by
@PierrePoilievre
?
You don't want to miss this update on how his plan to address the unregulated drug crisis has turned out
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FACT CHECK
80%+ of toxic drug deaths involved illicit fentanyl
- Health Canada
"No indication"
#safersupply
contributing to deaths
- BC Coroners Service
The Trudeau government is killing people by giving out free drugs to addicts.
My Common Sense Plan:
- Stop tax-funded drugs
- Put resources into recovery to bring our loved ones home drug free
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Toxic contaminated street drugs supplied by organized crime is killing people - a regulated safer supply is needed to replace that
We need harm reduction and evidence-based treatment
The Trudeau government is killing people by giving out free drugs to addicts.
My Common Sense Plan:
- Stop tax-funded drugs
- Put resources into recovery to bring our loved ones home drug free
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FACT CHECK
@PierrePoilievre
"opioid crisis" motion
80%+ of toxic drug deaths involved illicit fentanyl
Health Canada
"No indication"
#safersupply
contributing to deaths
BC Coroners Service
Safer supply reduces overdose death…
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Has
@PierrePoilievre
shared a single tweet about even one of the 40,000+ people who have died of unregulated toxic drugs?
For him, this isn't about saving lives - it's only politics
We should grieve for Kamilah Sword and her family. Listen and learn. Not weaponize this tragedy.
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AMAZING conversation with
@DrGaborMate
on trauma and the criminal justice system. I also really appreciate him reading "Indictment" and offering his support.
Listen now:
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The Lethbridge supervised consumption site closed when the
#UCP
cut funding to it.
Elsewhere in Canada, supervised consumption sites reversed over 44,000 overdoses.
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LaPresse op/ed on drug policies
"If
@PierrePoilievre
bothered to read the scientific literature instead of saying nonsense, he would see that, far from being 'lethal', these practices save lives." [translation]
English:
French:
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In Alberta, between January 2018 and September 2019, seven community-based supervised consumption sites have seen 307,793 visits with 4,587 overdoses — all of which have been reversed without a single death.
Yet
@jkenney
claims he has special info the rest of us don't have...
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An outstanding column by
@cselley
You'll also notice
@PierrePoilievre
has been radio-silent all week on drug policy, given devastating record-breaking number of people dying in
#Alberta
- the policy model he wants to nationalize
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Politicians dictating whether a particular individual gets criminally prosecuted or where an individual should serve their prison sentence is a dangerous path that we should not go down
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"The idea that a
@PierrePoilievre
government could 'guarantee' that certain people will be denied bail is legally illiterate. It would be unconstitutional"
via
@torontostar
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"Of the many egregious statements made by the federal Conservative Leader in his video, this might be the most outlandish and despicable of them all."
@garymasonglobe
calls out
@PierrePoilievre
on his lies about unregulated contaminated drug deaths
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MEMO
To:
@jkenney
#abpoli
Re: Supervised consumptions sites
#opioidcrisis
Number of Albertans who died between 2016 to June 2019 of opioid-related overdoses:
At a supervised consumption site: 0
Not in a supervised consumption site: 2,542
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Careful how hard you push this narrative
@PierrePoilievre
Harper-era "crack down" on prescription drug abuse (Oxycontin) and the war on drugs are linked to fentanyl's emergence in the unregulated toxic drugs that caused these deaths
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Pierre Poilievre helped create a moral panic against people who are homeless who use substances. Now he applauds their criminalization.
@PierrePoilievre
is a denier of the facts:
1) Unregulated illicit drugs are killing Canadians
2) Deaths unabated under the “recovery-oriented”…
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Kudos to
@CTVVancouver
for exposing this.
Vancouver residents were duped by fear-mongering into paying record breaking tax increases for more cops, even as "stranger attacks" were declining - a fact kept hidden by authorities until now.
Full story:
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Globe editorial:
@PierrePoilievre
drug video "problematic to a legendary degree" and "he factually misrepresented safer supply and callously oversimplified the realities of addiction"
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Stop trivializing people's lives. They're not a ticker-tape counter for your messaging.
People are dying of unregulated contaminated drugs which is what the drug prohibition that you advocate offers them
Each day Trudeau refuses to ban public use of hard drugs in BC, more than 6 Canadians die of overdoses in that province.
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Another hit piece op/ed today from the National Post on
#safersupply
:
1) No balance - again no one is interviewed/cited of the many researchers who support safer supply
2) The author relies on a "rapid review" challenging safer supply that itself has been discredited by over 50…
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CLAIM: People don't actually use their safer supply, they just sell it to others.
FACT: Participants in the Ottawa
@safersupply
program reduced their use of illicit fentanyl by 85% on average while on the program
Source:
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Blocking life-saving public health interventions like supervised consumption sites violates the right to life of Canadians
PM Harper lost on this very issue in 2011 at the Supreme Court of Canada. Poilievre doesn't know or doesn't care.
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"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Tonight, people are protesting a proposed
#Barrie
bylaw that would make it illegal to feed the poor
We are campingv out in front of
#Barrie
City Hall in protest to unjust bylaws they are passing through that will make kindness a crime. Come out and stand in solidarity with us, or just stop by to say hi.
#SolidaritynotCharity
#kindnessisnotacrime
#cdnpoli
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This opinion writer had 10,000 words and didn't once mention what the BC Coroner's Service has found:
"There is NO indication that prescribed safe supply is contributing to illicit drug deaths."
My new 10,000 word investigative report shows that Canada's safer supply programs have been a disaster. A significant portion of the opioids being distributed by the government are being sold ("diverted") to the black market to purchase illicit fentanyl.
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#Edmonton
police shoot and kill a woman during a "wellness check" which was supposed to "ensure the health and safety of the woman"
Here's a hint: if your intervention kills people in the name of saving their life, it's time for a fundamental rethink
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My op/ed on
@PierrePoilievre
's mandatory minimum penalties - an old, tired, discredited idea
MMPs are ineffective at reducing crime, may increase recidivism, are often unconstitutional, increase delays, and perpetuate systemic racism
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Great to see this op/ed getting reprinted in media outlets across Canada
People are wising up to the discredited "tough on crime" scam
Original article:
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False Claim
#4
by
@PierrePoilievre
: we know what works and can keep these drugs out of the country
Truth: fentanyl is a synthetic drug that can be made in Canada with college-level chemistry knowledge and equipment
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CLAIM:
#safersupply
doesn't work
FACT CHECK: Safer supply program in Toronto reduced overdoses from 50% to 15%
Participants reduced their daily fentanyl use from 78% to 31%
Source:
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Q: How many people have died of safer supply?
A: No indication prescribed safer supply is contributing to overdose deaths. 81-88% of post-mortem toxicology reports were fentanyl from illicit unregulated drugs.
Stop the games. Save lives.
23,863 Canadians have died from a policy that has not even been proven, as an experiment or otherwise to be effective.
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Good to see MPs vote down
@PierrePoilievre
anti-safer supply motion - his policies would maintain an unregulated toxic drug supply
Past time for
@JustinTrudeau
to step up with scaled up safe places to use, safer supply, decrim & on-demand evidence-based treatment…
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Who knew? Helping people who are homeless worked.
"Almost 70 per cent of people who received the payments were food secure after one month. In comparison, spending on alcohol, cigarettes and drugs went down, on average, by 39 per cent."
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@shuvmajumdar
Q: How many people have died of safer supply?
A: No indication prescribed safer supply is contributing to overdose deaths. 81-88% of post-mortem toxicology reports were fentanyl from illicit unregulated drugs.
Stop the games. Save lives.
Ask
@momsstoptheharm
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So let's make sure I got this: there are people who use drugs who are ASKING for safer supply drugs on the street and are even willing to pay for it
Their other option is toxic contaminated street drugs - which is what is actually killing people
Justin Trudeau said that spending tax dollars to give free hard drugs to addicts was "safe."
Now we know addicts are reselling Trudeau's drugs and using the proceeds to buy deadly fentanyl.
My common sense plan - give addicts rehab, not free drugs, to bring our loved ones…
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@PierrePoilievre
Mr. Poilievre says today his goal is to "bring our loved ones home DRUG-FREE"
Indeed, his policy would bring many people home but DECEASED due to his opposition to life-saving harm reduction measures
His primary goal is abstinence - not to save lives
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FACT CHECK: If you watch the video
@PierrePoilievre
shared to the end it shows a “76% DECREASE in mortality in persons receiving prescriptions for opioids”
Toxic contaminated street drugs are the poison killing people. As are policies of ignorance.
The theory of safe supply: give people taxpayer-funded “safe” drugs so they don’t use dangerous ones.
The reality: they sell the “safe” drugs (sometimes to kids) to buy more potent ones that kill them.
Enough.
More treatment—not more poison.
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My commentary in today's
@globeandmail
:
"Mr. Poilievre’s tough-on-crime messaging has long been a winning formula for politicians, but research shows that hiring more police and sending more people to prison does NOT lower crime rates."
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CLAIM: No one actually uses safer supply.
FACT: 78% of people on safer supply reduced or stopped using street-acquired fentanyl entirely since starting
#safersupply
Source:
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"ACCESS DENIED"
#Alberta
just refused my Access to Information request to release the number of people dying from unregulated drugs
If they hadn't just released this info publicly, I'd be filing a complaint with the Commissioner and going to media with their Orwellian…
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If we want to make criminal justice policy based on rhymes, a more accurate slogan is "with jail we fail"
Incarcerating people increases reoffending. People leave worse off than when they entered. Status quo isn't working either.
We need a totally new approach.
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Good to see
@Twitter
flagged
@PierrePoilievre
video which uses homeless people as props and spreads lies & stigma against people who use drugs
They should add
@CommunityNotes
too since his claim safe supply is killing people is patently false, as shown by the BC Coroners Service
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"If British Columbians were suddenly dying from poisoned alcohol or tainted nicotine or adulterated medications, there would be hell to pay"
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You’ve been saying safer supply is killing everyone
Now you say it’s unregulated contaminated drugs
Make up your mind please
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I'm not reading the hateful comments on this post. You don't need to either. They only confirm the point.
It's heart wrenching to see the hatred & judgment against people who use drugs
A study of 14 countries (including Canada) found people who use drugs had the highest level of stigma of any class of individual—worse even than those with leprosy. Let's push back.
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@PierrePoilievre
Watch the video you shared to the end, Pierre.
It finds a “76% DECREASE in mortality in persons receiving prescriptions for opioids”
(Source: BC Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions)
Toxic contaminated street drugs are the poison killing people.
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The
@nationalpost
makes mistake of thinking there are only 2 options: "soft-on-crime" or "tough-on-crime" - neither work
As I show in "Indictment" , we need a new transformative justice system that prevents crime, addresses root causes, reduces recidivism and is evidence-based
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Unconscionable. Cruel. Wrong.
This appalling
#Barrie
Ontario bylaw would make it illegal to give food on city property to people experiencing homelessness
Welp. They're doing it.
#Barrie
City Council are set to pass a bylaw this Wednesday night that criminalizes providing survival items to unhoused people on public property, with zero public engagement. It's undemocratic and it's mean. This is not how we take care of each other.
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Tragically, so much for the "Alberta model"
"Alberta and Calgary are experiencing the worst drug poisoning death rates on record ... amid a push from UCP members to end public funding for supervised consumption sites."
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@PierrePoilievre
Has
@PierrePoilievre
shared a single tweet about even one of the 40,000+ people who have died of unregulated toxic drugs?
We should grieve Kamilah Sword . Listen and learn. Not weaponize this tragedy
Thank you
@GordJohns
for organizing this round table on the toxic drug crisis and the invitation to all MPs!
I hope many will join this dialogue. Maybe we will finally see
@PierrePoilievre
!
Our team will be there
@leslie_mcbain
@angelaVos7
@RuthFox39986528
@ChrisNayler
#cndpoli
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The Alberta government continues to withhold data on how many people are dying from toxic unregulated drugs
There are troubling signs things may be getting worse but the public is being kept in the dark
EMS data is out. Drug poisoning calls are at their highest level since November 2021. Only 2 times has it been higher since surveillance began.
Be very careful if you are using. It’s bad out there.
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This is not reassuring:
"Alberta is not included in our analysis because every ministry refused to provide records."
From the new
@globeandmail
investigation into Freedom of Information
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What a ham-fisted PR statement.
They complain that Danielle Smith's now infamous "Nazi" comments were taken out of context, then DELETE the full podcast that would give that context.
There is no context to justify what she said.
A Calgary financial planning firm has taken offline its 2021 podcast where Danielle Smith linked being pro-vaccine to Nazi-era Hitler acquiescence.
Its statement:
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“I don’t believe I was assaulted by unhoused people, I didn’t ask for my story to be used by Danielle Smith and the Chief Dale McFee to justify the ongoing sweeps of our unhoused neighbors"
#abpoli
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@PierrePoilievre
Careful how hard you push this narrative
Harper-era "crack down" on prescription drug abuse (Oxycontin) and the war on drugs are linked to fentanyl's emergence in the unregulated toxic drugs that caused these deaths
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Words matter and so do policies
@PierrePoilievre
wants to criminalize people who use drugs, ramp up the War on Drugs, oppose regulated drugs, and uses dehumanizing language in the process
The word "addict" is derogatory & perpetuates stigma against people who use drugs
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"The presumption of innocence is one of the pillars of our criminal justice system
"And for politicians to spout off and sentence a man and condemn a man who is presumed innocent without knowing any true details of the case — it is reckless, it is irresponsible."…
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