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The head of B.C.’s extortion task force is walking back comments he made Tuesday that the region is not in an extortion crime-related crisis after Premier David Eby demanded he step up his urgency or step down from his role…

“…There are situations where something becomes a crisis and that allows government to make emergency orders, which can then allow the government to do more than they would otherwise be legally permitted to do. So, labelling it a ‘crisis’ I think in the legal context, is getting into that dangerous territory…”

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The B.C. government has confirmed that its ill-fated pilot program to decriminalize drugs will end on January 31st.

“I find it really hypocritical the way the government is talking about how ‘we don’t want to involve people in the criminal justice system, we want to get them into healthcare’ but they have never made the proper investment into the healthcare, into the treatment… We already have a healthcare crisis in this province with E.R.s shutting down all over because of understaffing…”

“Arresting people and putting them in jail has never gotten people to stop using drugs. It’s never stopped the flow of toxic drugs. Nothing is going to change and I think the number of deaths is going to increase.”

Listen to the full segment here.

On the Coast’s Soapbox Social panelists Mo Amir and Kyla Lee weigh in with host Gloria Macarenko on the splintering of OneBC and the future of conservative parties in the province.

Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: What’s next for OneBC and right-leaning parties in B.C.Read More »