Harm reduction executive won’t say her group supports drug handouts to addicts
Conservative MP Andrew Lawton grills a Sudbury, Ontario-based harm reduction director who refuses to say whether her organization supports handing out free drugs to drug addicts.
While questioning witnesses from organizations which could get court-ordered payments due to a new Liberal bill, Bill C-235, Conservative MP Andrew Lawton grilled the executive director of a non-profit organization about her group's stance on drug handouts to drug addicts and “harm reduction” methods.
Evie Ali, the executive director of the Go-Give Project, an organization that provides charity and support to individuals “experiencing substance use and related disorders” in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, refused to say whether her organization supports “safe supply” drug handouts.
Bill C-235, Respecting Families of Murdered and Brutalized Persons Act, a Liberal private members’ bill, would let courts order an offender to pay restitution to organizations that “provide services to victims.” As the Go-Give Project provides support to Greater Sudbury’s “unhoused” population and could be a recipient in the bill, as Lawton argues, there’s “very little limitation” on what organizations could receive restitution.
