Is Canada trying to ELIMINATE the Homeless?
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In 2016, Canada became the first country in the world to legalize medical assistance in dying (MAID) and expand it to the mentally ill. Since then, over 30,000 Canadians have died at the hands of the state since MAID became legal in 2016. Is Canada really a country that believes being homeless is the same as receiving a death sentence? Is there no hope for a Canadian who becomes homeless or is experiencing poverty?
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what does it say about our country our fellow countrymen and importantly our leaders when
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almost one-third of canadians polled in a recent survey said they support extending medical
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assistance in dying euthanasia to canadians whose sole condition in life is that they are homeless
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or in poverty like so many polls published in the legacy media canadians would be wise to take the
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results with a grain of salt after all i'm pretty sure none of you watching this episode were asked
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to participate in this specific poll but is canada really a country that believes being homeless is
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the same as receiving a death sentence that there's no hope for a canadian who becomes homeless or is
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experiencing poverty the truth is this is not just a shocking indictment on our society but an
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indictment on our leadership now the problem for all of canada is that our leaders who deeply believe
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in expanding euthanasia to the mentally ill won't see this as an indictment but rather an endorsement
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of their liberal plans but if made won't kill enough people canadians can simply go down to
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their local safe supply depot receive a government approved heroin substitute trade that in for a
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toxic dose of fentanyl on the street like so many canadians and then die of a toxic fentanyl overdose
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all of this begs the serious and honest question without hyperbole is the federal government trying
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to eliminate the poor it's truly horrific that that is where we are at as a country right now but when
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you go through the data that we're going to go through on this show that question becomes deadly
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serious drop a like in the video help us out by subscribing to the true north youtube channel
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and the common question for the episode is this it's the same one in the poll you weren't asked
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to participate in do you believe that it is right to extend made to people who are homeless let me know
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in the comments and let's get into it take a look at this data from a recent opinion poll published by
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a company called research co earlier this month 27 percent of canadians agree that made should be
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extended to people whose sole condition is poverty 28 percent of canadians agree that made should be
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extended to people whose sole condition is homelessness 51 percent of canadians agree that
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made should be extended to people because of an inability to receive medical treatment 43 percent of
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canadians agree that made should be extended to the mentally ill and 50 percent of canadians agree
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that may should be extended to people with a disability euthanasia in canada has been rapidly expanding
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since Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister. In 2016, the federal government passed Bill C-14,
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the initial euthanasia law amending the criminal code to allow for medical assistance in death.
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Bill C-14, the original medical assistance in dying bill, allowed for anyone diagnosed with
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a terminal illness to be approved for medical-assisted euthanasia. In March of 2021,
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medical assistance in dying was further expanded in Canada with the passage of Bill C-7. Bill C-7
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allows anyone with a disability or chronic illness to receive medical assistance in dying.
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This rapid expansion of MAID in Canada has resulted in UN watchdogs condemning Bill C-7,
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including disability rights groups. But that simply was not enough to stop Justin Trudeau and
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the federal government from expanding MAID for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses.
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So what's the result of all this? Well, over 30,000 Canadians have died at the hands of the state
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since euthanasia became legal in 2016. Some basic facts about euthanasia in Canada are important
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before we go on. The data for 2022 hasn't been released yet, but in 2021, 3.3% of all deaths in
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Canada were the result of MAID. And 81% of written requests to receive MAID are approved. And up until
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just a few months ago, Justin Trudeau and the federal government were prepared to extend medical assistance
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and dying to Canadians whose sole condition was that they were mentally ill, was that they were
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depressed. The government eventually introduced legislation to pause this expansion because I
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guess expanding euthanasia to the mentally ill was just even a step too far for Justin Trudeau.
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So that expansion of MAID to the mentally ill has been halted for at least 12 months, but it doesn't
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really tell the entire story of what's been going on in Canada. Take this article written in The
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Spectator in the UK from last year. The title of the article is Why is Canada Euthanizing the Poor?
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A woman in Ontario was forced into euthanasia because her housing benefits did not allow her
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to get better housing, which didn't aggravate her crippling allergies. Another disabled woman
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applied to die because she simply cannot afford to keep on living. Another sought euthanasia because
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COVID-related debt left her unable to pay for the treatment, which kept her chronic pain bearable.
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When the federal government was debating expanding MAID in 2021 to include not just terminal illness
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but chronic illness and disabilities, they had the parliamentary budget officer tally up just how
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much money the government would save if they expanded MAID in this way. Cost estimate for Bill
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C-7. Oh no, you're not living in a dystopian nightmare. The federal government is just making
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sure they know how much money they're going to save if they can kill off people with disabilities.
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And the answer, if you really wanted to know, $149 million. Shocking and gross right out of a
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dystopian novel, but frankly, pretty much par for the course these days with our country, isn't it?
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Last year, City News interviewed a man named Amir Farsud who had applied for MAID because
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his landlord was selling his rental apartment and Amir could no longer afford to live and get by
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on Ontario disability benefits. Amir Farsud has applied for medically assisted dying known as MAID.
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He lives in constant agony due to a back injury, but has started the process for end of life
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because his rooming house is up for sale and he can't find anywhere else to live that he can afford.
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He barely survives on Ontario disability support payments, which are just over $1,200 a month.
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He doesn't want to die, but being homeless is not an option. Farsud meets the criteria for MAID,
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physical suffering due to disability that cannot be relieved. His doctor, who knows Farsud's real
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reason for MAID is his fear of being homeless, signed off on the application in August.
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And that interview on City News quickly went viral on social media, amassing hundreds of thousands of
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views and resulting in an outpouring of support for Amir. And what do you know, a month later,
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Amir Farsud no longer wanted to end his life because he received public support.
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Farsud thought he would be dead by today, but as you're about to see, so much has changed.
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You are a different person. I'm a different person. The first time we spoke, you know,
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I'd wake up every morning and, and I had nothing but, but darkness and misery and stress and
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hopelessness and, and all that. And now I've got all the opposites of those things.
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If that is not the most obvious and clear argument against extending MAID to the homeless and the
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poor and people who have chronic illnesses, then I don't know what is because Amir no longer wants
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to die. Amir is with us today, but how many Canadians are no longer with us because they
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were poor, homeless, they had no support around them, and no one showed them that they actually
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cared. And because the government left the door open for them to die. As we've discussed previously
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on this show, the record number of Canadians who have to rely on food banks just to survive
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are now going to those same food banks and requesting medical assistance in dying because
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struggling this way is simply no longer sustainable for them. That they would rather die than have
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to line up at food banks every single day just to get by. And that's not hyperbole. Take
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it from the CEO of the Mississauga Food Bank testifying to MPs. You talked about individuals
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in mental health crisis even coming to the food bank and looking to access medical access
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and dying. Conservatives have been accused of gaslighting or even making these stories
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up. But you can confirm today that people are indeed coming to food banks to end their life.
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people who are truly homebound and can't go to their food bank, many of them with disabilities
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or are seniors. And so as we've built relationships with those folks, providing service to them
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month over month, some of them in chatting with us when you call and say, how are you doing
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to talk about their order, have said, I can't go on like this and express that they are looking
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into those options. And so it has happened, you know, a number of times over the past year.
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And so we've invested in more mental health supports for our staff for the impact it has
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on them when they engage in those conversations. But no, it's not a made up story. That is something
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we're encountering. Four veterans who served this country, put their life on the line for
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this country and who now have PTSD were offered medical assistance in dying as a treatment option
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for their PTSD by a veterans affairs case officer. She, he was asking for a completely separate
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service and supports for neurological injuries. And she said, Oh, just by the way, if up the road,
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you have suicidal thoughts. And this is what he told me. She said, it's better than blowing your
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brains out against the wall. Also, Canada is now extending made to inmates in prisons. We no longer put
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our inmates to death by hanging or lethal injection, but well, actually we do put them to death by
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lethal injection. This time by MAID. This is from the Belleville Intelligencer. Canada is putting
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prisoners to death again with MAID this time. Under the current Corrections Canada procedure,
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any inmate can apply for MAID via a written request to prison health authorities. Within five days,
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the prisoner is then granted an eligibility assessment with an in-house health professional,
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such as the prison's resident doctor or nurse practitioner. If they pass the first assessment,
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they are referred to an outside physician or nurse for a second opinion, after which MAID can be
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approved. Canada's rate of in-custody MAID is well beyond that of any other jurisdiction in which
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assisted suicide is legal. Everywhere else, the procedure is either not done or has yielded no more
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than one instance that qualified under special circumstances. And in Canada, nine federal inmates
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have been put to death by MAID. The government only halted medical assistance in dying to the mentally
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ill because they wanted more time. Not because it was fundamentally the wrong thing to do, not because
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it was completely immoral, but because they needed more time to get the facts right. But surely we
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would never get to a position in Canada where we would have physicians calling for infants to receive
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MAID, right? We would never get to a position where a college of physicians would be advocating for
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infanticide. Well, as a matter of fact, that is exactly what happened last year. Dr. Louis Roy from the
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Quebec College of Physicians told the House of Commons Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance
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in Dying on Friday that his organization believes MAID can be appropriate for infants up to age one
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who are born with severe malformations and grave and severe syndromes, for which their perspective
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of survival is null, so to speak. The same for babies from zero to one years of age who are born with
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severe deformations, very grave and severe syndromes, medical syndromes, whose life expectancy and level
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of suffering are such that it would make sense to ensure that they do not suffer. And when a conservative
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MP, Rosemary Falk, tried to pass a motion condemning that recommendation by the Quebec College of Physicians,
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one Liberal MP, Chad Collins, said he wasn't interested in wasting his time.
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The Quebec College of Physicians recently recommended to the Special Joint Committee of
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Medical Assistance in Dying that it would be appropriate to expand access to MAID to infants
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up to the age of one who are born with severe or grave syndromes. So I'd like to take this opportunity
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to move the following motion, that the committee report to the House that it is of the opinion that it
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rejects the Quebec College of Physicians assertion on October 7th, 2022, that the expansion of medical
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assistance in dying MAID is appropriate for infants up to the age of one who are born with severe and
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grave syndromes. Mr. Collins? Yeah, opposed. Not interested in wasting time. So all of this now brings us to how the
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federal government is approaching the opioid crisis in Canada. The opioid crisis since 2016 has taken
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over 35,000 Canadian lives. And the federal government's approach to solving this problem
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is to embrace a strategy ironically called safer supply. And just as the government views medical
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assistance in dying as a health care solution to people suffering from chronic illnesses and
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disabilities, the government believes that safe supply is a solution to opioid addiction. Not only that,
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they believe that safe supply, as they always say, saves lives. A very extensive National Post
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investigation by Adam Zeevo completely debunks the federal government's so-called safer supply
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strategy to save lives. At these safe supply depots, Canadians who are struggling with opioid addictions
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can receive what is called hydromorphone, which is a government-approved heroin substitute that apparently
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is way more potent than heroin. As Adam Zeevo writes in the National Post,
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according to a number of addiction physicians, a significant portion of the safer supply drugs
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being freely distributed through government funded programs are not actually being consumed by their
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intended recipients. Instead, these drugs are being sold on the black market at rock bottom prices,
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typically to fund the ongoing purchase of illicit fentanyl. Safer supply programs do not curb the
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fentanyl market. They subsidize it. So Canadians are receiving the government-approved heroin
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substitute, flipping it on the street for toxic fentanyl, and then dying from overdoses. That's their
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strategy. That's the best the federal government can do. The report goes on. Drug users have been telling
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addiction physicians that, like a geyser, diverted hydromorphone flows from these cities to other
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markets where opioids are rarer and sell for higher prices. Hydromorphone is allegedly being resold
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across Canada and even in other countries, which is lining the pockets of drug dealers and gangs.
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A shocking finding which the federal conservatives are rightly outraged over.
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People are dying because the policies of this Prime Minister are killing them. His policies are flooding
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the streets with drugs that now go for a dollar a hit. You can buy 26 hits of hydromorphine,
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which is an analog to heroin, for $30, Mr. Speaker. These are drugs paid for by Canadian tax dollars
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under a program by this government that has led to a 300% increase in drug overdose deaths.
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Why won't they get some common sense and dollars for drugs and put our people in treatment?
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And in response to all of this, Carolyn Bennett, the minister responsible for this nightmare,
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the minister for addictions and mental health, who also happens to be the minister overseeing the
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expansion of MAID, completely lost it in the House of Commons. Why do they always start screaming
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whenever they get exposed like this? Serious question.
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Mr. Speaker, we are pretty fed up with this fight against evidence-based programs that
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actually are saving lives. We cannot allow the conservatives to take us back to the failed
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ideology of the past. Even Harper's advisor, Ben Perrin, thinks they're speaking nonsense. So just stop
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it and save lives. Let me try and get all of this straight here. The federal government's strategy to
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try and solve the opioid crisis is to decriminalize all hard drugs in British Columbia, which by the
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way, the city of Toronto is also now seeking a similar approval for, and to rapidly expand the
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distribution of safe supply drugs, hydromorphone, which as we can already see, is having the opposite
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effect. So that's the strategy here. So if you don't want the quote-unquote compassionate out with
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MAID, you can take a far more aggressive approach with fentanyl in Canada. Because right now,
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nothing is being done to solve that problem. Ratio of the week time. The winner this week is
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Carolyn Bennett, who wasn't satisfied after posting her screeching fit in the House of
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Commons. She followed that up with a little tweet that said,
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safer supply saves lives. 519 replies to only 293 likes at the time of this recording. And just like
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you watching, a lot of Canadians on Twitter think that what Carolyn Bennett had to say was
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completely ludicrous. Ms. Bennett, while you grip onto an ideology proven a failure, people continue
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to die. Safer supply is an oxymoron. There is nothing safe about illicit drugs. Since decriminalization
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for possession has taken place in BC, overdose deaths have broken all records. Safe supply equals myth.
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BC is riddled with disgusting drugs where your government legalized drugs. As someone who recovered from
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addiction, no, it does not. It creates more addiction and dependency. And yet it doesn't.
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Go downtown to any city and tell me it's working. It's a post-apocalyptic nightmare. But you know that.
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If you can't get them through MAID, you'll get them through addiction. We see what you are doing.
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Well, that's frankly what it looks like, doesn't it? The government wants to expand MAID to make
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it as liberal as possible to include as many people as they can. And if they're not going to get you
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through MAID, they're going to flood our cities with black market fentanyl. Toxic fentanyl that is
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continuing to take lives in this country. What a sad state of affairs that we are living in right now.
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Reminder to let me know in the comments your answer to the comment question of this episode.
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Do you agree with the one-third of Canadians that think it is right to extend MAID
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to Canadians whose sole condition is homelessness or poverty? All right, that's going to do it for
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us this week on the show. Thank you so much for tuning in. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this