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House Hansard - 305

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 30, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 305 - Apr/30/24
Mr. Dan Albas (Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, CPC)
  • Apr/30/24 1:04:12 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, first of all, I would like to point out that military-style weapons are only used by the military. I have no idea what the member is talking about when it comes to that. One thing we absolutely do not support is the budget provisions around safe supply in British Columbia. The Government of British Columbia came to Ottawa to ask for changes to that particular agreement. Conservatives do not believe decriminalization is helping people. We see families affected. Nurses have lodged complaints about drugs in our hospitals that are putting their lives at risk. We are seeing disorder in our streets. People cannot stop at bus stops anymore, because people are using drugs there. I would like to know the member's position. Does he support safe supply? Does he want to maintain the current decriminalization, the exemption in the Criminal Code, for British Columbia?
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Context: House Hansard - 305 - Apr/30/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Apr/30/24 2:21:19 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the Prime Minister is not worth the drugs and death. His extreme and radical drug policy has increased overdose deaths in British Columbia by 380%. In the year following his decriminalization of crack, heroin and other hard drugs in hospitals, transit buses, coffee shops and parks where children play, there has been a record-smashing 2,500 deaths. Will the Prime Minister accept the B.C. NDP's demand to recriminalize those drugs?
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Context: House Hansard - 305 - Apr/30/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Apr/30/24 2:28:19 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that, like everything else the Prime Minister says, is false. He uses fear and falsehood, and this latest distraction, because he does not want to face the fact that he has become so extreme and radical that even the B.C. NDP is distancing itself from his decriminalization of crack, heroin, meth and other hard drugs in hospital rooms, which causes nurses to have to stop breastfeeding their babies for fear the contaminated air might end up in the breast milk for the baby. Why will he not ban these drugs?
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Context: House Hansard - 305 - Apr/30/24
Mr. Chris Warkentin
  • Apr/30/24 3:07:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order to ask for unanimous consent from the House for a take-note debate on the drug decriminalization policy and toxic drug overdoses to be held later today. Some hon. members: No.
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