There was not a dry eye in the room as Premier Danielle Smith and a gathering of Indigenous leaders, UCP ministers and most importantly victims of addiction and their families shared testimonies of heartbreak while insisting that recovery, not free drugs from the government, is the only compassionate way to move forward. The policy announcement serves as a stark contrast to the free safe drug supply approach that NDP, or at least many of its candidates, have espoused despite Rachel Notley’s recent ham-fisted attempts to deny that reality.