Addiction and the poisoned drug supply
Conservateur
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Fund treatment for 50K people in treatment centres
"Fund treatment for 50,000 Canadians. A new Conservative government will fund treatment for 50,000 Canadians in treatment centres with a proven record of success at getting people off drugs. This includes successful models like the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre, which helps people recover and reunite with their families, communities, and culture. To ensure the best outcomes, funding will follow results. Where spaces in good treatment programs exist, we will use them, and where they need to expand, these funds will allow that." — conservative.ca, retrieved 2025-04-17
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Ban safe consumption sites from being located within 0.5km of schools, daycares, playgrounds, parks, and seniors' homes
"Ban drug dens from being located within 500 metres of schools, daycares, playgrounds, parks, and seniors’ homes and impose strict new oversight rules." — conservative.ca, retrieved 2025-04-17
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End exemptions for provincially-regulated safe consumption sites
"Poilievre also pledged to crack down on the Liberals’ reckless experiments with free access to illegal drugs that allow provinces to operate drug sites with no oversight, while pausing any new federal exemptions until evidence justifies they support recovery." — conservative.ca, retrieved 2025-04-17
"He will also end the exemption for fly-by-night provincially-regulated sites." — conservative.ca, retrieved 2025-04-17
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Require federal safe consumption sites to operate away from residential areas and places where families and children frequent
"Existing federal sites will be required to operate away from residential communities and places where families and children frequent and will now also have to focus on connecting users with treatment, meet stricter regulatory standards or be shut down." — conservative.ca, retrieved 2025-04-17
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Require federal safe consumption sites to push treatment options
"Existing federal sites will be required to operate away from residential communities and places where families and children frequent and will now also have to focus on connecting users with treatment, meet stricter regulatory standards or be shut down." — conservative.ca, retrieved 2025-04-17
NPD
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Expand funding for crisis and addictions care
Libéral
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Stand up additional border scanners, drones, and new K-9 teams to target suspicious shipments
"Cracking down on drugs, including fentanyl and its precursors, illegal guns, and stopping organized crime gangs from smuggling cars out of the country. We will train 1,000 new Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers. In addition, to secure our borders, we will stand up additional border scanners, drones and new K-9 teams, to target more suspicious shipments at our land borders, ports, and railyards;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16
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Invest in the Public Prosecution Services of Canada to prosecute more complex drug production, trafficking, and import offences
"Holding those profiting from bringing fentanyl into our communities accountable by prosecuting more complex drug production trafficking and importation offences. We will invest in the Public Prosecution Services of Canada so that they can do so;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16
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Allow police to search for and seize contraband in Canada Post mail with a general warrant
"Amending the Canada Post Corporation Act to allow police to search for and seize fentanyl and other contraband in Canada Post mail with a general warrant." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16