BC Conservatives Pledge Crackdown on Public Drug Use, Consumption Sites

BC Conservatives Pledge Crackdown on Public Drug Use, Consumption Sites
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad speaks during a news conference in Richmond, B.C., on July 30, 2024. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
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The Conservative Party of BC is pledging to close down the province’s supervised consumption sites and introduce a “zero-tolerance” policy for public drug use.

Conservative Leader John Rustad made the announcement in a Sept. 27 release that referenced a video circulating online of a mother and her children at a Port Alberni Dairy Queen while a man smokes a crack pipe outside. The man can be seen through the window of the restaurant, a few feet away from where the three children sit eating ice cream.