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An Alberta court has denied an application that would have forced the province to continue providing injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT) at two government-funded clinics slated to shutter next month amid an ongoing lawsuit.
Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Grant Dunlop ruled planned changes by the UCP government, and their effect on 11 severe opioid use disorder patients who launched a legal challenge, “will be minor.”
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“While there is an argument to be made that those changes will breach one or more of the Plaintiffs’ Charter rights, the Plaintiffs have not established that they will suffer irreparable harm as a result of those changes,” Dunlop wrote in his Feb. 25 ruling.
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On February 16, Canada s governing Liberal Party finally moved to enact long-promised reforms to criminal justice by introducing a sweeping new bill that would make arrests for drug possession only one option for police, end all mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses, end some other mandatory minimums, and open the way for conditional (probationary) sentences for a variety of offenses. But is it enough?
Canadian parliament building, Ottawa (Creative Commons)The government s move comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces mounting pressure for reform on two fronts. First, Canada is facing an unprecedented drug overdose crisis, with the province of British Columbia especially hard-hit. Last year, the provincial Coroners Service reported, BC saw a whopping 1,716 drug overdose deaths, up a startling 74 percent over 2019. The province has always been on the cutting edge of drug reform in Canada, and spurred by the crisis, BC formally asked the federal government in early Februar
"Our policy framework has created a monster, really, which is a drug market laced with illegal fentanyl and its analogues. It's a terrible example of a catastrophic failure of public policy, in my mind, which urgently needs to be modernized."