Canada’s sharp rise in overdose deaths coincides with Trudeau government’s lax policy on hard drugs
by Anthony Murdoch, LifeSite;
According to a Statistics Canada report, ‘deaths caused by accidental poisonings accounted for 7,006 deaths in 2021, an increase of 31.9 percent compared with 2020.’
Despite the federal government’s latest Liberal policies toward hard drugs, deaths from drug overdoses in Canada continue to skyrocket with the most recent statistics from 2021 showing that they went up by a third.
According to a new Statistics Canada report released Monday, unintentional “deaths caused by accidental poisonings accounted for 7,006 deaths in 2021, an increase of 31.9 percent compared with 2020.”
According to Statistics Canada, “An accidental poisoning resulting in death occurs when a person is exposed to a noxious substance such as drugs, alcohol, carbon monoxide or pesticides.”
The vast majority of deaths were in men.
Statistics show that 95.9% of the deaths were from drug overdoses and accidental “poisonings rose by 32.9 percent.”
A federal policy put in place by the federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in May 2022 in effect decriminalized hard drugs on a trial-run basis in the province of British Columbia. While the policy was approved in 2022, it did not come into effect until February 2023.
Under the policy, the federal government began allowing people within the province to possess up to 2.5 grams of hard drugs without criminal penalty, but selling drugs remained a crime.
The policy has been widely criticized, especially after it was found that the province broke three different drug-related overdose records in the first month the new law was in effect.
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