The Liberals, NDP, and Bloc Québécois joined forces Monday in voting down a Conservative motion calling on the government to immediately reverse a number of its hard-drug policies outlined in the Canadian Drugs and Substances Strategy, namely its safe-supply drug programs.
The motion, which Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre introduced on May 18, was voted down 209-113, with the three members of the Green Party and two independent MPs also voting against it.
Poilievre’s motion on Canada’s “opioid crisis” specifically called on the Liberal government to “immediately reverse its deadly policies and redirect all funds from taxpayer-funded, hard drug programs to addiction, treatment and recovery programs.”…