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

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Opinion: Liberal MP Hanley calls for supporting NDP MP Johns’ C-216, say it should be considered to address toxic drug crisis cdnpoli (subs)

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.

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 weekend’s festival was dedicated to the loss of a much-loved young citizen of the Vuntut Gwichin First Nation, Myranda Charlie, who succumbed to an opioid overdose earlier in the year.

 

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I have a question for every MP, teacher, lawyer (like they will answer LOL), police officer, mother, father, aunt, uncle... I have a question for anyone on this planet who thinks they have 2 brain cells that they can rub together.

This is liberal/Liberal/NDP policy whose time has come. The war on drugs is an abject failure. The Conservatives will object because punishment is their thing. A Trump-loving member of the Calgary constabulary told me one day that...

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