The House Leader of the Opposition B.C. Conservatives has described the “unsurmountable” personal impact of the toxic drug crisis, which she says claimed the lives of two of her brothers, a niece and a nephew.
A’aliya Warbus says that just last week she attended a memorial for one brother who died from “a lethal dose of drugs” a year ago.
She says a niece “died alone in a tent,” while her 13-year-old nephew died last fall after overdosing on drugs in his bed as his mother slept in the next room.
Warbus, who is the daughter of former lieutenant-governor Steven Point, was speaking during question period in the B.C. Legislature where she renewed calls for a public inquiry into what she called the “failed experiment of safe supply.”…