Wed May 31, 2023 – 3:57 pm EDTWed May 31, 2023 – 4:15 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — Canadian MPs in a 209 to 113 vote on Monday agreed to keep in place a policy enacted by the Liberal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, which more or less guarantees the “safe supply” of hard drugs to addicts in the province of British Columbia.
The vote came after Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre on Monday brought forth a motion calling for cabinet to “immediately reverse its deadly policies and redirect all funds from taxpayer-funded hard drug programs to addiction treatment and recovery programs.”
According to Poilievre, spending on hard drug programs has totaled a whopping $800 million since 2017.
The vote was held in light of a federal policy from May of 2022, which in effect decriminalized hard drugs on a trial-run basis in the province of British Columbia. While the policy was approved in 2022, it did not come into effect until February of this year.
Under the policy,
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