Mr. Speaker, since 2016, over 50,000 Canadians have died from the Liberal-sponsored opioid crisis. Over 80% of accidental opioid deaths involve fentanyl, and it takes just two milligrams of fentanyl to kill someone. The Liberals legalized possession of 2,500 milligrams of fentanyl. That means possessing 1,200 lethal doses is permitted.
This is not the public health solution the Liberals make it out to be. It is a public safety threat that is ripping up communities all across Canada. What is the Liberal response? Recently, the Prime Minister said that the fentanyl crisis is not a crisis at all and downplayed it as a mere “challenge”.
Conservatives are calling for mandatory life imprisonment for anyone involved in the trafficking, production and distribution of over 40 milligrams of fentanyl. Let us make no mistake; mass fentanyl production is mass murder. The fentanyl kingpins should be locked up and treated as the mass murderers that they are. It is time to invest in treatment and recovery, and to bring our loved ones home drug-free.