Was it bureaucrats or politicians who pushed ahead with safer supply and harm reduction policies despite all the data reporting it didn't work anywhere it was tried? Just like college kids who think that socialism will work this time because every other time it was done wrong. Now if they were in charge...
Personally I think it is the bureaucrats (and some self interested NGOs) that drive the policies far more than the politicians whether it be safe supply or forest management.
I think you're right. There's a whole industry grown up around addictions like there is with every government funded program. They have a vested interest keeping the misery going, acting like farmers tending livestock. Their paycheques depend on it.
Thank you Sam Cooper. Eby backtracked for one reason and one reason only, the dip in his polls. This is how BC spends tax dollars. Wait for the next tax hike to an indebted government. It is a cesspool. Has been for decades. It didn’t take brain surgery level thinking to see what a disaster this is and to whom it caters.
Something that gets breezed over a lot in the conversation about addiction, what gets people into treatment. They call it the gift of desperation. If an addict cannot get or afford their drug of choice they have a very serious conversation with themselves about what they are doing and even possibly have a moment of clarity. That inevitable conversation is going to happen a lot less frequently when drugs are plentiful and cheap. The safe supply program looks good on paper to people who might not have a lived experience with addiction but to people who have they know the issues that will arise. We cannot look at this situation through sober eyes because that’s not the way people who are living with addiction look at it. When someone is willing to do anything to get and stay high, and that the easy thing to do, why would they do the hardest thing they may have or ever will do. Go to treatment and get clean?
No they don't because they rarely suffer the consequences of bad policies other than possibly getting voted out.
Interesting David Eby reversed himself on public hard drug use the same day the poll came out showing NDP in second place behind BC Conservatives. Suddenly, there's consequences and he has a profound revelation.
What is of greater concern than just this one "safer supply" drug policy is the realisation that the people (politicians, bureaucrats, etc), who are so utterly lacking in basic common sense, are the same ones creating overarching and specific government policies that impact all aspects of our lives.
Was there really no one in those policy planning meetings who said "Hang on a moment, let's think this through a bit because the idea sounds crazy"? Enough of this experiment having the Province and Canada led by the equivalent of a student council, time to get the adults back in charge.
Was it bureaucrats or politicians who pushed ahead with safer supply and harm reduction policies despite all the data reporting it didn't work anywhere it was tried? Just like college kids who think that socialism will work this time because every other time it was done wrong. Now if they were in charge...
Personally I think it is the bureaucrats (and some self interested NGOs) that drive the policies far more than the politicians whether it be safe supply or forest management.
I think you're right. There's a whole industry grown up around addictions like there is with every government funded program. They have a vested interest keeping the misery going, acting like farmers tending livestock. Their paycheques depend on it.
Thank you Sam Cooper. Eby backtracked for one reason and one reason only, the dip in his polls. This is how BC spends tax dollars. Wait for the next tax hike to an indebted government. It is a cesspool. Has been for decades. It didn’t take brain surgery level thinking to see what a disaster this is and to whom it caters.
Something that gets breezed over a lot in the conversation about addiction, what gets people into treatment. They call it the gift of desperation. If an addict cannot get or afford their drug of choice they have a very serious conversation with themselves about what they are doing and even possibly have a moment of clarity. That inevitable conversation is going to happen a lot less frequently when drugs are plentiful and cheap. The safe supply program looks good on paper to people who might not have a lived experience with addiction but to people who have they know the issues that will arise. We cannot look at this situation through sober eyes because that’s not the way people who are living with addiction look at it. When someone is willing to do anything to get and stay high, and that the easy thing to do, why would they do the hardest thing they may have or ever will do. Go to treatment and get clean?
More and more I think our governments in Canada want us drugged up, taxed to the max, high on government largesse and driving an EV.
Governments never consider unintended consequences.
No they don't because they rarely suffer the consequences of bad policies other than possibly getting voted out.
Interesting David Eby reversed himself on public hard drug use the same day the poll came out showing NDP in second place behind BC Conservatives. Suddenly, there's consequences and he has a profound revelation.
True - however - this was not an ethical decision. It was a ' vote for me ' decision.
100% it was political expediency not a realization his drug policies are destroying not only addicts but whole communities.
Cancellation is in order. We don’t need any govt enquiries.
What is of greater concern than just this one "safer supply" drug policy is the realisation that the people (politicians, bureaucrats, etc), who are so utterly lacking in basic common sense, are the same ones creating overarching and specific government policies that impact all aspects of our lives.
Was there really no one in those policy planning meetings who said "Hang on a moment, let's think this through a bit because the idea sounds crazy"? Enough of this experiment having the Province and Canada led by the equivalent of a student council, time to get the adults back in charge.
Pierre P. Trudeau blocking re-criminalization of crack, heroin & other hard drugs killing 6 people a day:
https://www.youtube.com/live/hpSiLBvjk50?si=4aJsLpKmVDkESb3b