Thu Feb 2, 2023 – 7:50 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre spared no words yesterday in describing what he thinks Vancouver has become due to a lax federal and provincial government policy toward hard drugs, saying the city has turned into “hell on earth.”
“Decriminalization has been in place in BC since about 2017, in reality. The results are in, the debate is over. It has been a disaster, an absolute, abject failure,” Poilievre told reporters yesterday.
“You only need to take a walk down the streets of East Vancouver, where addicts lay face first on the pavement, where people are living permanently in tents and encampments.”
Poilievre made the comments on the same day the province of British Columbia’s decriminalization of hard drugs policy went into effect, which will remain in place until January 26, 2026. The current NDP government in the province has been a staunch supporter of relaxing federal drug laws, claiming it will help addicts.
Starting February 1, Trudeau’s federal government began allowing people within the province to possess up to 2.5 grams of hard drugs without criminal penalty, but selling drugs will remain a crime.
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