The Government of Alberta has introduced through Bill 53, the Compassionate Intervention Act, the first-in-Canada legislation to force drug users into treatment and recovery programs. The aim of the legislation is to ensure that prolific drug users who have a demonstrated risk of causing harm to themselves or others, are placed into either secure or […]
Classic conservative governing — opting for reactionary, authoritarian solutions to problems they themselves created through deleting all of the existing preventative solutions that were 10x more effective.
Also, in the CBC article about it, there’s this line: “a patient won’t be able to refuse medications that the commission has decided they will take to treat their addiction.” How the hell does that jive with the right to decide over all medical decisions that Smith recently amended into Alberta’s constitution? I find it pretty strange that they keep writing legislation restricting who this right applies to.
Classic conservative governing — opting for reactionary, authoritarian solutions to problems they themselves created through deleting all of the existing preventative solutions that were 10x more effective.
Also, in the CBC article about it, there’s this line: “a patient won’t be able to refuse medications that the commission has decided they will take to treat their addiction.” How the hell does that jive with the right to decide over all medical decisions that Smith recently amended into Alberta’s constitution? I find it pretty strange that they keep writing legislation restricting who this right applies to.