TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) — The city of Toronto is delivering drug kits across the city via a drug hotline, as part of its “harm reduction” plan.
The city of Toronto is operating a Mobile and Street Outreach program to allow residents to call a hotline and have drug kits, complete with pipes for smoking crack or meth, naloxone, syringes, condoms, delivered to them for free.
“The province of Ontario made it clear that there was no place for ‘safe consumption,’ for the consumption of drugs anywhere near schools and daycare centers,” Canadian commenter Ben Mulroney in a July 22 episode of his show.
“And instead, what we’ve noticed is the rise of the use of drugs and the giving out of all the materials that you need to do drugs in homeless shelters across this city,” Mulroney continued.
Mulroney interviewed a Toronto resident named Amy working with the New Toronto Initiative, who explained how the city’s drugs policies are exacerbating, not solving, the drug crisis.
Amy shared that she collected a free drug kit from the Queen West “harm reduction” center in Toronto. The kit included an OD package, to help someone who is suffering from a drug overdose.
However, it also included pipes for smoking crack or meth, naloxone, syringes, condoms, and instructions on “safer crystal meth smoking,” such as how to use a meth pipe.
According to the City of Toronto, the drug kits were only to be distributed from five supervised consumption treatment centers in Ingleton, Lake Ontario, Victoria Park, and Don Valley Parkway.
However, Amy revealed that there are “over 100 distribution sites in the city of Toronto.”
Additionally, the city’s “Street & Mobile Van Outreach” program delivers “harm reduction supplies” across the city.
“This stuff is supposed to be circumscribed to these five locations,” Mulroney explained, adding that, despite this, “the city has decided that they’re circumventing that by offering mobile delivery.”
The supplies provided by the mobile service include injecting and smoking supplies, which can be delivered within 20 to 40 minutes of calling the hotline.
Furthermore, earlier this year, Toronto began building new homeless shelters, including one in Amy’s neighborhood, which raised concerns regarding community safety.
However, the city assured Amy that the homeless shelter will not be a “safe injection” site. Later, Amy learned that the shelters will be handing out the euphemistic “harm reduction kits,” which include drug supplies.
“And if you are telling us that in homeless shelters it is now open season for people to consume drugs at their leisure, then you are putting people who never had any interaction with drugs right next to people who do,” Mulroney warned.
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, a government funded vending machine is dispensing drug supplies and contraception just meters away from a Toronto school.
The distribution of the kits comes after the Liberal “safe-supply” program was deemed such a disaster in British Columbia that the province asked former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to recriminalize drugs in public spaces. Nearly two weeks later, the Trudeau government announced it would “immediately” end the province’s drug program.
“Safe supply” is a euphemism for government-provided drugs given to addicts under the assumption that a more controlled batch of narcotics reduces the risk of overdose. Critics of the policy stress that giving addicts drugs only enables their behavior, puts the public at risk, disincentivizes recovery from addiction, and has not reduced – and sometimes has even increased – overdose deaths when implemented.
Beginning in early 2023, Trudeau’s federal policy effectively decriminalized hard drugs on a trial-run basis in British Columbia.
Under the policy, the federal government allowed people within the province to possess up to 2.5 grams of hard drugs without criminal penalty. Selling drugs remained a crime.
Since its implementation, the province’s drug 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.
The effects of decriminalizing hard drugs in various parts of Canada have been exposed in Aaron Gunn’s recent documentary Canada is Dying and in the U.K. Telegraph journalist Steven Edginton’s mini-documentary Canada’s Woke Nightmare: A Warning to the West.
