Liberal MP Hanley calls for supporting NDP MP Johns’ C-216, say it should be considered to address toxic drug crisis

An urgent national conversation about the toxic drug crisis means that we are doing everything we can to save Canadians’ lives.

NDP MP Gord Johns, pictured. His private member's Bill C-216, an Act to Amend the Controlled Drug and Substances Act and to enact the Expungement of Certain Drug-related Convictions Act and the National Strategy on Substance Use Act, provides a timely opportunity to amplify and accelerate federal action, says Liberal MP Brendan Hanley. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LIBERAL MP BRENDAN HANLEY

May 26, 2022

OLD CROW, YUKON—I spent the May long weekend in Old Crow, Yukon’s most remote and northerly community, celebrating Caribou Days which has returned after a two-year hiatus. The celebrations were joyful but tentative, muted with lingering pandemic caution and grief over a hard two years. The weeke...

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