The federal “safe supply” drug policy is senseless and destructive, says Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre. Speaking in Vancouver, Poilievre told business owners that cabinet must “break the cycle of addiction that is raging out of control in our country.”

“The drug policy has to be completely reversed,” Poilievre said Friday at a question-and-answer session with the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade. “I am to the point I don’t even know what motivates the policy right now.”

“At first I thought it was just sort of a naïve Utopianism that was driving this idea of giving out free drugs and decriminalizing these poisons,” said Poilievre. “But now the evidence is so clear that it has been a nightmare you have to ask yourself, what is motivating this policy?”