Mr. Speaker, it feels like it is déjà vu all over again.
We spent years in opposition fighting against the Stephen Harper ideological approach that stood against harm reduction, that allowed people to die in the streets and that criminalized drug users.
That failed. Canadians chose a different path in 2017, one grounded in evidence, science, compassion and a health approach to treating addictions, not a justice-system approach to treating victims.
We will not take any lessons from that ideologically driven, fact-free Conservative Party of Canada.