Will the Consevatives ever get past their ideology, look at the science and get it right on Insite and safe injection sites? Sadly, it seems unlikely:
Canada's Attorney General and Minister of Health will be in a B.C. court to appeal a lower court order that prevents Ottawa from shutting down Vancouver's controversial supervised-injection site.Recommend this Post on Progressive Bloggers
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I agree completely with you! Conservatives will never admit that addiction is an illness and not a matter of 'moral deficiency'!
" ...“It should be stressful to break the law,” Department of Justice lawyer Robert Frater said Monday in the B.C. Court of Appeal. “The government is under no obligation to provide [its citizens] with a safer way of breaking the law.” Making drug-related laws unconstitutional because they are difficult for drug addicts to obey would be “capitulation” along the lines of changing arson laws to accommodate pyromaniacs, Mr. Frater added.
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