Juno News - Ontario students get ＂safer snorting＂ guides in classrooms

00:00:00.000 Well, more Canadians are declaring bankruptcy as household debt levels rise across the country.

00:00:10.740 The number of Canadians who filed for insolvency jumped 8.5% year over year.

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00:01:23.600 Parental outrage in Ontario today.

00:01:25.720 taxpayers in the province have been funding a safer snorting campaign aimed at high school

00:01:32.900 students. That's right, tips on how your kids can ingest cocaine and other drugs. The Ontario

00:01:39.360 government handed $300 million to community health and addictions agencies. Some of that money went

00:01:45.840 to the Canadian Mental Health Association, which handed out condoms and a booklet offering tips

00:01:53.720 on how kids can make their own drug paraphernalia.

00:01:58.660 The CMHA is now scrambling to deal with the backlash.

00:02:02.240 It's calling the booklet unvetted materials

00:02:05.000 and says it regrets the distribution.

00:02:08.100 Not good enough, says former Stephen Harper aide,

00:02:10.980 Dimitri Sudas, who wants heads to roll.

00:02:14.920 Our guest today is Michelle Ferreri.

00:02:16.640 She is a former Conservative Party member of Parliament

00:02:19.420 and a mother.

00:02:20.440 Welcome to the show, Michelle.

00:02:22.100 Thanks so much for having me, Mark.

00:02:23.440 It's great to be here.

00:02:24.760 Well, we've got this organization now that thought it was a good idea to hand out a booklet

00:02:30.200 instructing young people.

00:02:32.460 We're talking about high school students on how to do things like create their own drug

00:02:39.740 paraphernalia and how to snort cocaine.

00:02:44.260 I mean, I can't imagine who thought this was a good idea.

00:02:48.860 What do you make of it?

00:02:50.340 Listen, it sounds like parody.

00:02:51.640 it sounds um insanity like any normal person would be like this is crazy um it's not made up

00:02:57.960 it's it's real it's a real thing and you know one of the pushbacks i got back on this was one of the

00:03:03.240 parents like oh no it got rectified they didn't mean to so let's back up and say thank you kathy

00:03:07.880 for your optimism that's very kind of you but here's the reality okay so since 2017 the liberal

00:03:15.000 government has allocated nearly two billion and that's very very low i'm being very conservative

00:03:20.200 on that number, $2 billion to harm reduction. And I use these air quotes because this is the

00:03:25.940 wording and the language they have used to literally fund drugs and drug paraphernalia

00:03:30.600 in this country. We went from teaching kids, hey, drugs are really bad for you. They cause brain

00:03:35.600 damage. They're all kinds of things. They're toxic. They're not great to hear this is actually

00:03:40.580 how you do drugs. We're not treating addiction like a disease. We're actually teaching kids how

00:03:45.020 to get the disease. And it's insane. So this booklet was handed out by the Canadian Mental

00:03:50.900 Health Association. So I should latch onto that. Almost $2 billion in funding for harm reduction, 0.73

00:03:57.920 not prevention, not education, none of these things, all while overdoses in this country

00:04:02.780 have increased 150%. We've actually lost more people in this country from overdose than we did

00:04:10.580 to World War II. And that's not including the damage that happens to families, how it rips

00:04:15.860 people apart. This is probably the biggest epidemic of our time. And now you have them

00:04:20.520 infiltrating high schools to teach them how to snort cocaine. And let's just add another layer

00:04:27.240 of insanity to this, Mark, with a plastic straw. Yeah, they are funding your tax dollars. You're

00:04:33.380 not allowed to have a plastic straw, but we'll give the kids a plastic straw to learn how to

00:04:37.380 snort cocaine. Okay. So it's actually insane. Now, thank goodness CTV covered this story.

00:04:43.640 Thank goodness these kids called it out. These kids, if you watch this story, they're like,

00:04:47.860 what are they doing? Like this is teaching you to be a drug addict. So kudos to these kids that 0.81

00:04:53.160 are standing up against the institutions. The school got called out, CMHA got called out and

00:04:58.860 they're like, oh yeah, sorry, that was an oversight. I don't believe that this was an oversight. I

00:05:03.240 believe that they got caught for propaganda that they believe is where they get their money from.

00:05:08.860 And I'm going to back up even one more step, Mark, and I'm going to tell you another parallel that's

00:05:13.680 happening in this country. So Dan Mazier is the health critic for the Conservative Party. He was

00:05:18.780 on health committee last week. They had the federal public health officer of Canada testifying. So

00:05:25.000 this is your top authority on what is health in Canada, okay? He asks a very simple question and

00:05:31.720 he says, is it safe to inject fentanyl? This woman goes on to talk in word salad. She says, 0.98

00:05:39.380 it's complex. No, it's not complex. It is not safe. Fentanyl is toxic. That should be your

00:05:45.580 answer, full stop. But it's not your answer because it's what they believe. When I went

00:05:51.360 and toured the prisons in Drumheller, the drug use inside prisons, they now have taxpayer-funded

00:05:59.680 facilities to do drugs in prison. I said, what are you talking about? The top people at Corrections

00:06:06.600 Canada, the top doctor says, we have to have this. This is a belief system. This is an ideology.

00:06:12.380 It is funding money. It is keeping people sick. It is inhumane. It is basically criminal. And now

00:06:19.220 they're teaching your children to do it. And they've been doing it for a while, Mark, and they

00:06:23.460 just happened to get caught. Yeah. I mean, I can distinctly remember the prime minister being asked

00:06:29.340 about whether or not the whole fentanyl problem, which, by the way, has cost tens of thousands

00:06:34.500 of lives. I think the last number I saw was 50,000, but that was probably a couple of years

00:06:38.800 ago. So I'm sure it's gone much higher since then. But at that time, the prime minister's response

00:06:44.720 was, no, he didn't think it was a crisis. I mean, I just have to ask, how many thousands of lives

00:06:51.460 have to be lost before they do declare it a crisis? And then when you hear this high-ranking

00:06:57.740 health bureaucrat you know trying to dodge the question avoiding this issue it really makes you

00:07:05.660 wonder where their head or where their heads are at i mean what is behind this do you think

00:07:11.420 it's it's we we abuse victims every day in this country and even to your point mark of like well

00:07:21.500 they declare they didn't declare it a crisis or mark carney had oh yeah no it's kind of a minor

00:07:25.900 problem, right? He said that during the election, that clip was just one of the most insulting

00:07:29.380 things I've ever heard to so many families who've lost loved ones to overdose in fentanyl.

00:07:34.840 But then when you do declare an emergency, so like the city of Belleville or Peterborough,

00:07:39.340 which all of these little communities, which are unrecognizable, right? I mean, you have

00:07:43.800 Spencer Pratt down in the US that is literally calling LA zombie land. And this is not

00:07:51.300 becoming exclusive to Canada, you have an ideology or a belief system to give people the thing that

00:07:57.600 hurts them. Now, if you want to go really dark, what do I think about this? I think there's money.

00:08:02.800 I think it's a follow the money issue. I think it's a belief system. I think we went into some

00:08:08.580 sort of psychosis where we, you know, I've talked about this a lot, but Gadsad says it best,

00:08:16.380 suicidal empathy, where we're like, oh, it's very, very challenging to witness somebody stuck in

00:08:22.760 addiction. Okay. Like there's two, there's two conversations here, Mark. There's somebody who's

00:08:27.360 inactive addiction. That is absolutely, it is the most horrific thing any family can ever go

00:08:31.980 through. It is a disease. That person is literally under a spell. They have no ability to make

00:08:37.300 sound decisions. They are sick. They're literally sick. But then you have the government actively 1.00

00:08:43.440 funding teaching a new generation of students. Now they did this with safe supply. I talked about

00:08:50.360 this in the house of commons all the time. They went out government funded drugs. They were called

00:08:54.760 dillies. They gave them to these people. Uh, Peterborough was a, uh, pilot project for this. 0.99

00:09:01.000 And they thought, okay, well, they're going to do drugs. At least we'll give them, um, safe. And I

00:09:05.200 always use this air quote safe. There's nothing safe about drugs. Like normalizing drug use is,

00:09:09.600 is super problematic ask any addict that and so they do that the drugs aren't strong enough so

00:09:16.320 they go out and they sell them they've gotten them free by the government and your and your tax

00:09:20.480 dollars they sell them to young kids 15 16 years old there's tons of documentaries on this guys

00:09:25.920 this is not just me saying this now they have a whole new generation of addicts because these

00:09:31.520 pills are more addictive than heroin all while they go out and get the stronger version of

00:09:36.640 fentanyl because they want to be high. Like this is, you have to understand the complexities

00:09:42.700 of addiction. And so that woman is using these words like complex, which she's right,

00:09:48.460 but she's weaponizing the actual issue at hand, which is drugs are bad. Like we went from a

00:09:55.980 society of don't do drugs to don't do drugs alone to this is how you do drugs. Like it's insane.

00:10:02.800 and there's human consequences and our businesses have suffered our economy has suffered if you went

00:10:09.860 out and asked any municipality how much are you spending per shift on policing ambulance hospitals

00:10:16.820 that are backlogged you can't get into a hospital because there's nowhere for people to go for

00:10:20.520 treatment and recovery they get put in 24 hours later they get spit back out and they rinse and

00:10:25.760 repeat all while the criminals walk the streets and get out on bail to sell them these deadly drugs

00:10:30.860 and there's policies to fix this mark like there's it's not complicated yeah it sounds

00:10:37.540 like the government is trying to normalize this behavior and the implication here that

00:10:43.020 by handing out booklets that it's okay to to cocaine as long as you take certain precautions

00:10:49.820 so you're right i mean back when we were kids you know snorting cocaine was was demonized

00:10:56.980 as a drug that people need to stay away from if they want to stay healthy and normal.

00:11:02.920 And now we've reached the point where we're distributing not only this type of information

00:11:08.540 to young people who are impressionable, you know, they're still developing.

00:11:13.360 And then they get this booklet which tells them, you know, here's how you can take a more safe

00:11:20.380 approach towards snorting cocaine and other drugs. So what are they supposed to think?

00:11:26.260 I mean, this is literally encouraging the type of behavior that we need to stop, that is costing

00:11:32.520 lives. You know, let's call it what it is. This is normalizing behavior that is costing lives.

00:11:38.620 What say you? Yeah. But they've tried to do that with everything. So you can condition a human to

00:11:44.120 accept anything. Right. We saw this through COVID. You can condition a human to accept and normalize

00:11:49.700 anything. Right. Now it's normal to walk down your downtown and see somebody slumped over like a

00:11:54.320 zombie. That's the new normal. It's not normal. It's not normal, but they're making you feel like

00:12:00.360 it's normal. Like imagine you went in and you said to your kid, okay, um, you're going to get

00:12:05.940 hit by a car and this is how you get hit by a car. Like what? And then if you want to do it even

00:12:11.940 more, uh, like, and then they're, then they're offering medical assistance in dying to people

00:12:19.400 with mental illness. Like, how do you not sit back and go, are you just, are you just actively

00:12:25.600 trying to destroy all of us? Like, is that, is that the plan here? Because clearly you don't

00:12:33.020 want to, and there's money, like there's lots and lots of money. You know, they spent $4.5 billion

00:12:38.340 to decrease homelessness. When I asked the minister of housing at the time, the deputy

00:12:43.100 minister says, well, it's actually increased a hundred percent. So no wonder people don't want

00:12:52.560 to fill out their census form. No wonder people have given up and are moving and exiting Canada

00:12:59.120 at an exponential rate. So here's what I want to leave people with, Mark, because I think

00:13:04.620 you need a little bit of hope. Once you see all this, you're just like, I can't believe this is

00:13:09.860 happening. They want you to accept it. They want you to normalize it. And they'll say things like,

00:13:16.860 we need to get along. We need to be collegial. We need to be nonpartisan. We need to be respectful.

00:13:24.640 We need to, everybody needs to find common ground. Well, they drew a line in the sand

00:13:29.400 and there's no common ground in teaching your kids to snort cocaine. That's not a common ground.

00:13:35.680 So when they tell you to be collegial, what they're asking you to do is let them go ahead

00:13:40.800 with policies that are killing our kids and killing our country and our community.

00:13:44.440 So no, you don't get to be collegial when this is at stake.

00:13:48.840 And I'll tell you this, the other thing they'll say, it's time we need more non-partisan.

00:13:53.240 I hate this because everything that happens in terms of policy and legislation is partisan.

00:13:59.660 It is the policy and the party that put that policy in place.

00:14:03.320 that is a liberal belief system that is partisan that is policy that is legislation

00:14:08.360 so you've been forced by the institution by the liberals to pick a side and then they say oh

00:14:15.720 you're divisive no we actually want a better country where you work for me not where you

00:14:21.560 work for your investments in brookfield or whatever else it is that you have right i want

00:14:27.140 a future for my kids i want them to think they can move out of their house i want my kids to know

00:14:31.100 they don't have to do drugs to numb themselves from this world. That's what I want. Yeah. I mean,

00:14:36.780 we've reached the points where parents are thinking of leaving because their children aren't

00:14:43.540 exposed to this sort of thing. And, you know, you can't, if you're a parent, you're struggling

00:14:48.260 as it is, you know, to put food on the table for your family. You know, you trust these public

00:14:53.480 institutions and then you find out that they're distributing not only, you know, booklets

00:15:00.020 instructing people to how to do drugs and how to take drugs, but condoms as well. So it's

00:15:06.040 absolute lunacy. But thank you for coming on the show and giving us your take on all of that,

00:15:11.120 Michelle. Thank you, Mark. And let's give the let's give the power back to the parents where

00:15:15.940 they're consulted on what our kids are actually learning. And let's get back to basics where they

00:15:19.800 can learn maybe how to do their taxes, you know, or how to do math or literacy. Those seem like

00:15:25.160 good ideas, I think.

00:15:27.520 Absolutely. Back to basics.

00:15:30.100 Michelle, thank you.

00:15:31.780 Thanks, Mark.

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Juno News - May 13, 2026

Ontario students get ＂safer snorting＂ guides in classrooms

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