Drug use isn’t an issue ‘we can arrest ourselves out of,’ says Senator Boniface

Senator Gwen Boniface’s bill proposes the formation of a national health-centred strategy and the decriminalization of possession to address drug use, an approach experts support.

Ontario ISG Senator Gwen Boniface, pictured beside Ontario PSG Senator Peter Harder. A former commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police, in March, Sen. Boniface introduced a bill aimed at tackling the decriminalization of drugs. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY ALICE CHEN

March 31, 2021

Drug use is not an issue “we can arrest ourselves out of,” says Ontario ISG Senator Gwen Boniface, who recently tabled a public bill aimed in part at decriminalizing the possession of illegal substances for personal use, echoing comments she heard from a front-line officer as part of her efforts...

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