Promise draws criticism from Eby, Furstenau.
BC Conservative leader John Rustad had been building for months to his announcement Sunday that he’d close B.C. safe injection sites and replace them with addiction intake facilities. He’s been hinting at the move for most of the year, as his drug policies emerged in dribs and drabs. The culmination occurred before a major rally in Surrey on Sunday.
“And so all of a sudden they're using drugs in the community, in parks, in the doorways of businesses in alleyways, and they're more vulnerable to contracting HIV and hepatitis and dying of overdose.” “Did John get spun by his backroom federal Conservative strategists or did he just wake up and decide that further endangering the most marginalized British Columbians was the best path to power?” she said in a statement.The move on safe injection sites is but the latest attempt to reverse NDP drug policies and capitalize upon public fatigue at two years of rising street disorder and open drug use.
Also, the Conservatives have publicly called for provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry to be fired over her recommendation the province move toward regulating and one day selling hard drugs through retail stores like cannabis.
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