Mr. Chair, I will follow up directly with the minister about the wage subsidy for the PNE, then, and move on to another issue.
Nearly 20,000 people died from the overdose crisis between January 2016 and September 2020, and in B.C. alone over 17,000 people died from an overdose in 2020, the deadliest year yet. To save lives, many advocates, including Moms Stop the Harm and Dr. Bonnie Henry, have called for the federal government to declare the opioid crisis a national health emergency and to decriminalize personal drug possession. Will the government do that?