Mr. Speaker, Brianna McDonald, a vibrant, intelligent 13-year-old girl, was abandoned by a system that should have provided mental health care and addiction care, the care she so desperately needed to help her overcome her demons. The system failed Brianna.
On August 23, Brianna was found unresponsive. She died by overdose, alone in a tent in a homeless encampment in Abbotsford, B.C. Instead of being provided with the care she needed, she was given needles and taught how to use them. Brianna had just turned 13. Did the Prime Minister call? No. Did the Minister of Health or Minister of Mental Health call? No.
Brianna's parents are in Ottawa today. What does the Prime Minister have to say to them now? Because of his failed radical drug policies, they will never see their daughter again.