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Context: House Hansard - 305 - Apr/30/24

Apr/30/24 11:30:49 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I was at breakfast this morning with members of the insurance industry, who outlined exactly their view of this pharmacare program. They said that the monies committed just in this budget alone would provide the full formulary for all the drugs missing by those not covered under other drug plans. They then outlined all of the risks of people dropping their other plans and switching to a public plan. The dollars are going to go into the public purse as opposed to actually helping the people who do not have coverage. If the definition of deplorable is handing the government a balanced budget when it took power, I will take deplorable every day.

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Context: House Hansard - 305 - Apr/30/24

Mr. Chandra Arya (Nepean, Lib.)

Apr/30/24 2:02:44 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, Ottawa and other cities are witnessing unprecedented fatalities from opioids and designer benzodiazepines. These novel substances necessitate an updated approach to our response strategies. Our children are more than mere numbers. Each increase in overdose fatalities represents someone's child, a family member, a friend. It is crucial to hold to account the drug dealers responsible for these tragedies. Without facing consequences, they will persist in flooding our streets and endangering our youth. I would like to recognize Natalie Bergin, Jayne Egan and Janet Tonks for taking the lead and organizing on this important issue. They have set up an organization, Trace the Lace, to find justice for the children who have died from laced drugs. Let us do our part to support Trace the Lace.

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Context: House Hansard - 305 - Apr/30/24

Mr. Todd Doherty (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC)

Apr/30/24 2:13:14 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the leading cause of death for children in British Columbia is overdose. Overdose accounts for more deaths in B.C. than homicides, suicides, accidents and natural disease combined. Since 2016, over 42,000 Canadians have tragically lost their lives due to drug overdoses. After nine years, the NDP-Liberal government's extremist drug policies have literally turned our neighbourhoods into war zones, and statistics have tripled. Unbelievably, the government wants to go even further and make cocaine, meth, heroin, crack and fentanyl legal. Hard drugs are being used in playgrounds, parks, coffee shops and even hospitals. David Eby's NDP have finally admitted that the Prime Minister's extremist drug policies have utterly failed, leaving ruined lives and grieving families in their wake. The Prime Minister must end his failed drug experiment, today, or better yet, step aside and let a common-sense Conservative government fund treatment and recovery to bring our loved ones home.

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Context: House Hansard - 305 - Apr/30/24

Mrs. Laila Goodridge (Fort McMurray—Cold Lake, CPC)

Apr/30/24 2:17:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberal government is not worth the drugs, disorder, death and destruction. In B.C., more people are dying as taxpayer-funded deadly drugs flood the streets. Kids' playgrounds are littered with needles and crack pipes, and it is impossible for law enforcement to do its job and keep communities safe. A year after the Prime Minister made crack, heroin, fentanyl, meth and other drugs legal in B.C., a record 2,500 British Columbians lost their lives to addiction. Last year, the former minister of addictions assured us the government would end this deadly experiment if public health and safety indicators were not met. Both are failing, and B.C.'s NDP premier is now pleading with the Prime Minister to rescue them from this failed policy, yet the Minister of Addictions refuses immediate action. Now the Prime Minister wants to expand his failed policy of deadly drugs to Canada's largest city, Toronto, despite opposition from the premier. How many more Canadians must die before the NDP-Liberals will finally put an end to this failed drug legalization policy?

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Context: House Hansard - 305 - Apr/30/24

Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)

Apr/30/24 2:20:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, this Prime Minister is not worth the crime and the drugs. His extreme and radical policies on drugs, supported by the Bloc Québécois, have tripled the number of overdose deaths. In today's Journal de Montréal, we read “Syringes on the ground, degrading scenes and rowdiness: a chaotic setting near a supervised injection site steps away from a Montreal school”. When will he reverse his radical policies that are causing deaths?

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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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