The left and drug activists don’t give a damn about addicts

By Sue-Ann Levy

It took less than 24 hours last week for the drug pushers, enablers and activists to claim Premier Doug Ford’s decision to close injection sites near schools would lead to the death and destruction of addicts.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow and Chris Moise issued a joint statement declaring the sky would fall if the sites are shut:

Read my joint statement with Councillor Chris Moise, chair of Toronto Public Health, below: pic.twitter.com/q3e24h3TRx

— Mayor Olivia Chow (@MayorOliviaChow) August 20, 2024

Mere hours before, Ford’s health minister Sylvia Jones announced new rules forcing injection sites located within 200 metres of schools and day care facilities to close no later than next March.

They would be replaced by new treatment hubs and more supports for addiction recovery.

Jones cited repeated incidents of stabbings, shootings, assaults, robberies and a tragic murder of an innocent mom that occurred mere steps from a site in Toronto’s Riverdale last summer.

The five impacted are those that have caused the most chaos and mayhem in Toronto’s residential neighbourhoods including the one where the shooting occurred, another on Victoria St. near a Catholic school and yet another on south Bathurst recently featured in a True North video.

At long last and to his credit, Ford was doing the right thing and listening to parents instead of the drug industry which has wreaked havoc in cities where these injection sites are located.

I have never been a fan.

“Harm reduction” has completely destroyed Vancouver’s east side.

During a trip there 1.5 years ago, I toured East Hastings where the sites are located. Tent upon tent occupied the sidewalks and many an addict stood in the classic fentanyl pose oblivious to anyone around them.

There was a pervasive smell of urine and vomit all around.

It was truly a horror.