BC has just allowed open drug use in playgrounds because of safety concerns for drug users. Im all for taking measures to ensure people don't die from overdoses but if you put it up against the safety of my kids I'd easily choose to have a 100 junkies od in private over letting these delinquents anywhere near kids.

What do our fellow pardians make on this topic? Im probably swinging far right in the next federal election and the question is simply how far 🤔

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/bc-ruling-drugs-in-playgrounds

B.C. was already nine months into an unprecedented pilot project to decriminalize personal amounts of illicit drugs. Fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, meth, MDMA; so long as it was only 2.5 grams, by federal exemption it was now legal to possess illicit drugs basically anywhere in British Columbia.

B.C. was already nine months into an unprecedented pilot project to decriminalize personal amounts of illicit drugs. Fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, meth, MDMA; so long as it was only 2.5 grams, by federal exemption it was now legal to possess illicit drugs basically anywhere in British Columbia.

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The “playground” amendment — enacted on Sept. 18 — dialled it back ever so slightly. You could still possess illicit drugs without consequence, but you couldn’t do it within 15 metres of a playground, skate park or “outdoor spray pool or wading pool.” Schools and “child care facility premises” had already been written into the original decriminalization order.

According to the official text of the Restricting Public Consumption of Illegal Substances Act, police were officially discouraged from arresting violators, and if anyone was found using drugs in child-centric areas, officers were instructed to “direct” them elsewhere.

But in an injunction issued just before the end of 2023, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled that even this most delicate check against public drug use was a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In a Dec. 29 injunction, B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson ruled that it would impose “irreparable harm” if drug users were warned away from public areas — even if that came at the expense of public parks filled with biohazardous drug paraphernalia and other “social harms” such as “unpredictable behaviour.”

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The B.C. Coroner Service has long been a vocal advocate of harm reduction, including a vast ramp-up in the province’s “safer supply” initiative. Hinkson cited their assertion that “criminalizing drug use behaviour ensures an ongoing public perception that it is deviant and shameful, creating a barrier to people seeking the support they need as well as requiring people to hide their needs for fear of criminal sanctions.”

One of those no brainer topics

What are you maple syrup drinkers doing up there

Drug use is deviant and shameful.

Canada is a necessary sacrifice to warn the world of the perils of progressivism.

you have always been a selfish man, it is no surprise you turned to the alt right

On the contrary I am very generous 😌 enjoy your 8.69fg friend

What do you mean how far? You have one option which is the Conservatives. The Peoples Party is a laughing stock meme and their own leader cant win his own home town riding.

Wackjob far-left activist judges.

Banning drug use in playgrounds etc. is bipartisan, both the left and right support it. Polls are 95%++ in favour. It's only these wackjob far leftists who support it

The PPC greatly succeeded in their proper goal, which was to be a protest party against the then-state of the Conservative party which was led by milquetoast spineless cowardly men. Mad Max now should rejoin the party and submit to Poilievre.

Pierre Poilievre is a direct result of the PPC siphoning away votes from the CPC, more than 800,000 in the 2021 election. Now that the CPC has a proper leader the PPC has no more purpose.

This post was edited by El1te on Jan 4 2024 01:38pm

Polly is making all the right moves right now, not that it's difficult given the circumstances that Canada currently is in but he's talking pocket book and every Canadian across the country can relate to the pocketbook being hit. It's relatable.

If conditions stay similar I don't think he can lose and you might even see a majority gov't.

I agree, ppc should now step away, no need to be a cannibal.

This post was edited by SBD on Jan 4 2024 01:43pm

Taxing the middle class 60% but not including free university like that of European countries...

forcing vaccines, charging outrageous prices for food, rent, housing, the standard fare tbh... I don't understand my country any further. This isn't the Canada I was born into and lived for for over 40 years.

It's gotten absurd.

This post was edited by norseman81 on Jan 4 2024 09:46pm