Mr. Speaker, it is National Addictions Awareness Week, when Canadians commemorate the countless precious lives lost from the plague of drug use.
Some 47,000 Canadians have died due to drug overdose since 2015, including more than 8,000 last year alone. Every person had dreams, hopes and aspirations. None of them wanted to become addicted to drugs and none of them wanted to die. They deserved better. Their families deserve better.
All Canadians deserve better than a failing government that thinks the best way to fight an overdose crisis is to flood the streets with more drugs. We need to fully reverse the liberalization of drugs, which is killing Canadians and threatening our borders. We need to ban precursor drugs and prosecute every trafficker, and we need science-based prevention, treatment and recovery.
This madness must stop. A common-sense Conservative government will put an end to this terrible experiment. We will have a Canada first plan to secure our borders and bring our loved ones home drug-free.