Ottawa Centre's candidates' promises on Illicit Drugs & Overdoses

Decriminalization of drugs

Shelby Bertrand

Animal Protection candidate in your district

Criminalizing addiction only worsens the personal situation of addicts, stifling recovery.

APPC understands addiction is not part of personal character. It is a complex condition that cannot be understood without considering the person’s physical and mental health, and broader life circumstances.

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We don't have any Conservative policies on Decriminalization of drugs.

We don't have any Green policies on Decriminalization of drugs.

We don't have any Liberal policies on Decriminalization of drugs.

We don't have any PPC policies on Decriminalization of drugs.

NDP

Work with all levels of government, experts, and Canadians to end criminalization of drug addiction.
Work with provinces to support overdose prevention sites and expand access to treatment on demand for people struggling with addiction.

Opioid crisis

Shelby Bertrand

Animal Protection candidate in your district

In line with APPC’s general attitude towards drug use, I would make sure to nourish the practice of safe injection sites in Ottawa Centre to help combat the opioid crisis.

Conservative

Revise the Canadian drugs and substance strategy to focus on helping Canadians recover from addiction.

Green

Declare a national health emergency.
Increase funding to community-based organizations to test drugs make Naloxone kits widely available.

Address the opioid crisis as a health-care issue, not a criminal issue, by declaring a national health emergency. Recognize that fentanyl contamination is why deaths are more accurately described as poisonings than overdoses. Drug possession should be decriminalized, ensuring people have access to a screened supply and the medical support they need to combat their addictions. Increase funding to community-based organizations to test drugs and make Naloxone kits widely available to treat overdoses.

From Election Platform 2019, retrieved 2019-09-22.

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Liberal

New investments to help provinces and territories expand community-based services, build more in-patient rehab beds, and scale up programmes, such as safe consumption sites.
Make drug treatment court the default for first-time non-violent offenders charged with simple possession.

To help more people access the addiction treatment services they need, we will move forward with new investments that help provinces and territories expand community-based services, build more in-patient rehab beds, and scale up the most effective programs – such as extending hours for InSite and other safe consumption sites.

We will also make drug treatment court the default option for first-time non-violent offenders charged exclusively with simple possession, to help drug users get quick access to treatment, and to prevent more serious crimes.

From Forward, retrieved 2019-09-30.

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We don't have any PPC policies on Opioid crisis.

NDP

Declare a public health emergency and launch an investigation into the role drug companies may have played in the opioid crisis, seeking meaningful financial compensation for public costs.