The Conservative Party of BC is pledging to close down the province’s supervised consumption sites and introduce a “zero-tolerance” policy for public drug use.
Conservative Leader John Rustad made the announcement in a Sept. 27 release that referenced a video circulating online of a mother and her children at a Port Alberni Dairy Queen while a man smokes a crack pipe outside. The man can be seen through the window of the restaurant, a few feet away from where the three children sit eating ice cream.
“Children can’t even eat ice cream without being exposed to the horrors of open drug use,” Rustad said in the release. “Drug dens, free drugs, and crack pipe dispensaries have turned our streets into dangerous zones where families no longer feel safe.”…