It is an emergency. It was 4,000 deaths, and it's only in the last couple of years that Canada has actually tallied the deaths from opioids. Those 4,000 were from opioids alone. Opioids and other drugs usually, but....
I don't think there's merit in declaring an emergency simply for the sake of declaring one. The reason to declare an emergency is that it allows you to do things that you can't otherwise do under an existing structure. To the extent that the declaration of an emergency would allow federal or provincial governments to deploy measures that we know work, I think that would be a beneficial intervention.