Conservative rhetoric on safe consumption sites plays dangerous game with toxic drug crisis: NDP critic

Poilievre's plan to sue pharmaceutical companies is 'no silver bullet' to a 'complex issue that requires a multifaceted response' to keep Canadians alive until they can seek treatment, says NDP MP Gord Johns.

NDP mental health and harm reduction critic Gord Johns says that the Liberals' incremental approach to fixing the toxic drug crisis has created doubt, which the Conservatives are using to spread misinformation about safe supply and supervised injection sites.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

March 22, 2023

Following a recent announcement that a Conservative-led government would sue pharmaceutical companies over their role in contributing to Canada’s opioid overdose epidemic as a way to fund recovery treatment, NDP MP Gord Johns says the misinformation being spread by the Con...

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