Decriminalization of Hard Drugs - MP Alistair MacGregor Remained Silent as 2,253 British Columbians Lost Their Lives in 2024
A Public Safety and Health Crisis
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Uncontrolled Public Drug Use:Decriminalization has led to open drug use in parks, on transit, near schools creating menacing environments for families and children. Open drug use in hospitals supported by the NDP government created unsafe workplaces for nursing staff. Instead of reducing harm, it has normalized dangerous behaviors and left communities struggling with rising violence and fear.
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Crime, Addiction, and Overdoses Surge: Far from reducing drug-related deaths, this policy has driven crime rates higher, worsened addictions, led to more overdoses and caused a crisis in hospitals where nurses were expected to help addicts take lethal drugs to their peril. Hospitalized mothers were told not to nurse their babies because of their exposure to these hazardous drugs in the hospitals. The public health crisis has escalated, proving that decriminalization is not the solution.
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A Policy Failure Acknowledged Too Late: By 2024, the BC NDP was forced to backtrack after receiving a pushback from nurses who said their working conditions were unsafe and intolerable. The BC NDP then banned drug use in hospitals and reconsidered aspects of their policy. But the damage was already done, with thousands of lives lost and communities suffering the consequences of increased criminal behaviour and violence.
The NDP’s Blind Loyalty to Trudeau’s Drug Agenda
The BC NDP didn’t make these decisions on their own—they were simply following orders! Under the NDP mandate, the BC NDP is required to support and follow all federal NDP policies. That means when Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government started supplying dangerous and addictive drugs for free, Jagmeet Singh’s NDP was right beside them, propping up every decision. And because Singh and Trudeau were in lockstep, the BC NDP followed unquestioningly, implementing reckless policies that devastated BC communities and cost many lives.
MP Alistair MacGregor, as part of Singh’s federal NDP, stood by and supported these measures. He didn’t push back against Trudeau’s dangerous drug policies. He didn’t fight for safer communities. He went along with the party line, while 2,253 people died due to toxic drugs in 2023 alone in BC. https://shorturl.at/4ugvE
The Failure of Government-Funded “Safe Supply” Programs
Alongside decriminalization, taxpayer-funded "safe supply" programs were meant to prevent overdoses, but they have only made the drug crisis and violent crime in BC worse.
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Drugs Flooding Communities:Government-supplied narcotics have been diverted to the black market, making their way into schools. Instead of reducing harm, these programs have fueled addiction and put children at great risk.
- Overdose Deaths Keep Rising:BC’s Chief Coroner confirms that overdose deaths continue to climb with 152 deaths in January 2025 in BC alone; this is 4.9 deaths PER DAY in BC! https://shorturl.at/gczCO
- "Safe Supply" drugs have failed to prevent fatalities, have deepened the addiction crisis and endangered citizens.
A Better Path Forward: Real Solutions, Not Failed Experiments
Our Conservative Plan:
✔ End the decriminalization of hard drugs and focus on rehabilitation and recovery.
✔ Implement stricter enforcement to keep our homes, streets, parks, and schools safe.
✔ Hold the NDP and Alistair MacGregor accountable for supporting policies that have utterly failed BC citizens.
✔ Implement Real Solutions – one that puts families, communities, and recovery first.
While our youth were dying on the streets, MP Alistair MacGregor was chasing anchored freighters!