Sir, the definition of “widespread” is “distributed over a wide region, or occurring in many places or among many persons or individuals”.
Assistant Commissioner John Brewer is on the record as saying, “there is currently no evidence to support a widespread diversion of safer supply drugs in the illicit market in BC or Canada.”
We know from testimony as well as from reports of these investigations and, indeed, from these arrests that it is taking place in Prince George, Campbell River, Victoria, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Kelowna and, indeed, first nations across our area and in Alberta. Just by the very nature of all those communities, common sense would say that is a widespread problem.