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From YouTube: APRIL 4 2022 Question Period
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament
C
C
C
D
They
do
find
sometimes
that
there
are
better
ways
to
deliver
supports,
and
that
is
the
case
with
directions.
It
won't
clo
the
contract
won't
end
until
june,
and
what
vancouver
coastal
health
is
doing
with
the
funding
that
the
province
provides
hiring
new
employees
providing
new
supports
all
based
on
the
consultation
that
the
health
authority
did
with
the
families
and
children
as
with
the
the
course
of
the
overdose
crisis
changes.
So
do
the
services
that
we
deliver
and
there
will
be
no
reduction
in
services
for
young
people
grappling
with
substance,
use
challenges.
C
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
We've
we've
seen
this
before
we've
seen
it
with
pathways
kirmius,
sequoia
and
all
their
youth
recovery
homes
in
vancouver
all
cut
by
this
government.
When
pathways
was
defunded,
the
minister
promised
there
would
be
no
disruptions.
She
was
wrong
and
only
10
percent
of
pathway,
clients
registered
to
get
help
from
the
health
authority.
C
Alicia
hamilton
says,
and
I
quote,
directions.
Youth
detox
has
served
so
many
youth.
Why
would
anyone
consider
closing
a
crucial
service
in
an
opiate
crisis
in
highest
drug
overdose
cases?
We
need
more
beds,
not
less
and
quote
so
again
to
the
minister.
Why
is
this
minister
closing
directions,
youth
talks
and
reducing
services
to
those
in
need
at
such
a
critical
time?.
D
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
We're
doing
it
we're
using
an
evidence-based
approach
to
expanding
services
to
continue
to
build
a
system
of
care
where
there
was
not
one
before
that
often
means
taking
a
hard
look
at
existing
services,
sometimes
offerings
that
have
been
used
for
years
and
asking
whether
this
is
still
the
same
way
to
go.
D
This
is
what
vancouver
coastal
health
did
with
the
families
and
young
people
that
have
been
receiving
services
through
directions
in
cases
like
enrichment,
for
example,
we
did
see
how
the
redirection
of
funds
as
we're,
adding
new
funds
into
the
system,
how
changing
the
system
of
delivery
resulted
in
remarkable
improvements
in
access
to
care
for
young
people
and
families
throughout
the
community.
D
E
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
Thank
you.
The
closure
of
directions.
Youth
detox
is
personal
to
me
when
you
say
no
reduction
in
services.
I
don't
understand
where
a
young
person,
a
street
entrenched
young
person
at
one
o'clock
in
the
morning
who
decides
they
need
to
seek
support,
is
going
to
go
with
the
closure
of
this.
Only
youth
focused
detox
program
in
vancouver.
E
I
know
this
home
I've
had
the
honor
of
meeting
the
staff
and
some
of
the
young
people
that
are
in
this
program
and
have
experienced
it.
I've
seen
the
impact
of
directions
on
the
vulnerable
youth,
including
a
16
year
old
girl
who
had
her
life
saved
by
this
program,
and
it's
incredible
caring
staff.
The
alternative
is
that
a
young,
vulnerable
woman
like
this
16
year
old,
would
be
forced
to
go
to
an
adult
facility,
because
this
is
the
only
youth
facility
available
that
would
make
her
more
vulnerable
to
adults,
drug
dealers
and
negative
influences.
E
D
D
I've
directed
the
health
authorities
never
to
let
a
contract
like
this
expire
without
already
having
the
new
system
of
care
in
place,
so
there
will
be
no
loss
of
support
and
services
for
young
people.
Vancouver
coastal
health
says
that
this
was
a
underutilized
system
and
and
so
we're
going
to
build
different
kinds
of
supports,
designed
or
as
as
directed
and
determined
by
the
people
that
are
using
them.
This
will
be
there'll,
be
no
loss
of
service.
There
will
be
new
services
added
instead
by
the
time
that
the
contract
with
directions
ends
in
june.
E
Mr
speaker,
the
minister
talks
about
family
and
in-home
care,
many
of
the
young
people
who
are
street
entrenched
to
access
this
service.
They
don't
have
family,
they
don't
have
anywhere
else
to
go,
so
the
other
programs
that
are
being
described
are
not
programs
that
are
going
to
be
appropriate
for
them.
If
the
minister
was
serious
about
saving
lives,
she
would
restore
funding
not
just
to
directions
but
to
all
the
community
recovery
centers
that
have
been
cut
by
this
ndp
government,
but
the
minister's
record
gives
us
little
reason
to
trust
her.
E
Mr
speaker,
she's
admitted
that
the
youth
beds
announced
two
years
ago
only
28
have
opened,
which
is
less
than
a
quarter
of
what
this
government
promised
an
estimated
300
000
youth
in
bc.
That
is
one
out
of
five
need.
Mental
health
and
substance
use
services
and
things
are
getting
worse,
not
better
I'll
quote:
serena
jackson,
who
is
a
youth
support
worker,
shutting
down
directions.
Detox
in
the
middle
of
a
poisoned
drug
crisis
is
completely
unacceptable.
E
B
D
D
There
is
no
question
that
fighting
two
public
health
emergencies
and
unrolling
a
mass
immunization
campaign
has
made
it
challenging
for
our
health
care
system
to
implement.
For
example,
the
doubling
of
youth
treatment
beds
that
we
have
committed
to
in
budget
and
the
work
continues
to
be
underway,
but
we've
already
added
hundreds
of
new
treatment
beds,
we're
adding
hundreds
more.
I
will
hold
our
record
up
against
any
other
governments
in
british
columbia.
Any
time
we're
determined
to
build
the
supports
that
young
people
need,
in
this
case,
with
directions.
We
are
not
discontinuing
service.
F
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
Food
security
is
a
growing
concern
in
british
columbia.
The
impact
of
the
climate
emergency,
the
food
security
is
felt
in
the
grocery
stores
and
in
our
budget.
Empty
shelves
sky-high
prices
of
food,
but
indigenous
communities
such
as
my
own
food
security,
has
been
under
threat
for
much
longer.
Mr
speaker,
we
view
in
here
food
security
through
a
colonial
lens.
Take,
for
example,
how
resource
development
has
a
significant
negative
impacts
on
hunting
each
year.
F
My
family
goes
hunting
for
a
moose,
but
in
recent
years
it's
been
more
like
a
hike
with
a
gun,
as
my
sister
joni
olson
negotiations.
Analyst
for
the
hussainich
leadership
council
said
at
a
recent
meeting
quote
the
western
definition
of
food
security
has
and
continues
to
be,
destroy
indigenous
food
security,
agricultural
nutrients
and
fecal
matter,
and
the
waterways
have
culminated
a
cumulative
effects
on
species
and
create
dfo
closures
on
our
beaches.
When
the
tide
is
out,
our
table
is
set,
but
this
has
not
been
the
case
on
polluted
beaches
when
the
beach
is
closed.
F
It
criminalizes
our
harvesting
and
our
food
security.
Keep
in
mind
that
blueberry,
the
blueberry
ruling
was
on
the
cumulative
impact
that
toxin
input
and
removal
of
habitat
contribute
to
end
quote
through
you,
honourable
speaker,
to
the
minister
of
agriculture.
What
specific
actions
has
the
minister
taken
to
protect
all
forms
of
food
security,
including
the
right
of
indigenous
people,
to
harvest
wild
animals,
plants
and
medicines?.
A
Thank
you,
mr
speaker,
and
thank
you
for
the
question.
I
think
it's
a
really
important
question
to
be
posing
especially
these
days
as
we
see
so
many
situations
where
our
general
food
security
in
the
province
has
been
under
threat
by
climate
change,
related
disasters,
supply
chain
issues
because
of
the
pandemic.
A
It's
one
of
the
things
that
our
government
is
especially
interested
in
because
we
need
to
include
everybody
in
that
conversation,
and
so
two
years
ago,
through
my
ministry,
we
formed
the
bc
indigenous
advisory
council
on
agriculture
and
food
throughout
this
last
two
years,
we've
come
to
a
terms
of
reference,
and
we
are
now
compiling
with
working
with
indigenous
partners
a
set
of
action
plans
that
reflect
what
we
would
consider
modern
day:
food
security,
but
also
indigenous
food
security,
and
that
takes
into
account
different
types
of
food
systems
like
natural
food
systems,
wild
mushrooms,
berries,
etc.
A
F
Yeah,
thank
you,
mr
speaker,
and
I
thank
the
minister
for
her
response.
It's
an
important
response,
because
last
thursday
we
heard
the
minister
of
forests
defend
the
spring
of
poisonous
glyphosate,
saying
it
was
allowed
because
it's
regulated
through
the
integrated
pest
management
act.
F
Let
me
remind
the
minister
of
forests
that
these
pesky
plant
species
that
she
justifies
killing
are
native
plants,
they're,
not
pests,
they're,
the
foods
and
the
medicines.
Indigenous
peoples
have
harvested
and
traded
since
time
immemorial.
Memorial,
our
minister
of
forest,
is
killing
native
plant
species
as
pests,
and
it's
no
wonder
why
this
government
has
been
so
reluctant
reluctant
to
actually
pass
biodiversity
legislation
because
they're
too
eager
to
wipe
out
whatever
biodiversity
we
have
left
to
protect
these
lifeless
tree
farms.
F
F
G
Mr
speaker,
just
to
be
clear
since
2015,
the
use
of
glyphosate
in
in
the
forestry
sector
has
actually
declined
by
95
percent
and
the
member
referred
last
week
to
the
sea,
to
sky
region
and
since
2012
that
area
it
is
glyphosate
has
not
been
used
in
that
area
for
over
10
years
and
there
is
no
planned
use
for
it.
This
year,
all
six
first
nations
that
were
impacted
by
the
bc
timber
sales.
G
Pest
management
plan
were
consulted
by
as
part
of
its
development
and
actually
in
in
clear
contradiction
to
what
the
members
claim
was.
Last
friday,
the
squamish
first
nation
actually
put
out
a
public
statement
confirming
that
they
were
in
fact
consulted
and
they
have
agreed
to
the
current
plan.
There
will
be
no
glyphosate
use
in
that
region.
H
H
As
with
the
pandemic,
judith
sayer
says
quote,
we
can't
keep
saying
this
is
a
crisis,
an
emergency.
If
we
haven't
taken
drastic
steps
to
prevent
more
deaths,
the
time
to
act
is
now
end
quote:
will
the
minister
listen
to
the
talent
and
accept
the
urgent
timelines
and
recommendations
of
the
death
review
panel.
D
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
The
toxic
drug
crisis
has
affected
every
ministry.
Almost
in
our
government
across
government.
We
are
working
in
unprecedented
ways:
adding
new
services
across
the
continuum
harm
reduction
in
the
form
of
supervised
consumption
sites,
including
inhalation
sites.
There
was
one
in
2017,
there
are
40
now
and
we
are
building
more
we've
added
hundreds
of
treatment
beds.
We've
opened
the
redfish
healing
center,
the
first
place
to
open
on
the
former
river
view,
lands
now
known
as
semicoala
105.
D
First
in
north
america,
concurrent
disorder,
treatment
beds
and
we're
going
to
add
more
we've
added
hundreds
of
adult
treatment,
pads
we're
going
to
add
hundreds
more.
We
are
expanding
our
prescribed
safe
supply,
we're
the
first
province
in
at
the
first
province
in
canada.
I
think
the
first
place
in
north
america
to
prescribe
safe
supply
and
we
are
expanding
it,
adding
new
drugs,
adding
new
access
points
in
every
way
we
are
acting
with
urgency,
including
with
first
nations
leadership.
D
I
don't
think
there's
any
other
province
in
canada
that
funds
directly
of
first
nations
health
authority
and
we
work
hand
in
hand
on
overdose
response.
The
loss
of
life
is
terrible.
The
urgency
we
feel
every
day
is
strong
and
many
of
the
actions
in
the
death
review
panel
are
our
actions.
We've
been
working
on
and
continue
to
focus
on
every
day.
H
Mr
speaker,
this
clearly
is
a
crisis
and
an
emergency
and
families
all
over
british
columbia
continue
to
feel
how
that
is.
We
need
action
and
urgency
from
this
government
and
judith
sayer,
says
quote:
the
government
response
hasn't
been
enough.
End
quote
acting
with
urgency
starts
with
accepting
the
recommendations
of
the
death
review
panel,
but
yet
we
have
yet
to
hear
from
this
government
something
as
simple
as
we
accept
the
recommendations.
D
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.
The
panelists
on
the
death
review
panel
are
the
organizations
and
the
health
authorities
that
we
work
with
every
day.
It's
with
them
that
we
built
the
pathway
to
hope
it's
with
them
that
we
run
our
overdose
emergency
response
center.
It's
with
them
that
we
identify
what
gaps
were
in
the
continuum
of
care
and
that
we
continue
to
fill
out
those
gaps
in
treatment,
recovery
prevention,
overdose,
prevention,
decriminalization,
safe
supply.
D
All
of
the
things
that
we're
doing
the
the
many
actions
that
are
identified
in
the
death
review
panel
report
are
the
ones
that
are
already
embedded
within
our
overdose
emergency
response
plan.
Our
joint
steering
committee,
which
includes
multiple
independent
officers
from
across
government,
which
informed
me
and
my
ministry
directly.
D
We
are
working
every
day,
including
with
first
nations
health
authority,
20
million
dollars
to
build
new
treatment,
centers
20
million
dollars
to
support
the
design
and
implementation
of
land-based
healing
approaches.
24
million
dollars
over
three
years
for
first
nations
led
and
specific
overdose
prevention
and
response,
1.13
million
to
may
tbc
again
on
overdose
response
actions.
D
We
are
working
every
day
as
fast
as
we
can
and
it's
a
tragic
calamity
of
the
covid
19
pandemic
that
the
spikes
in
drug
toxicity
from
four
to
eight
percent
fentanyl
before
the
months
before
the
pandemic
was
declared
to
now
24
to
28
they're,
outstripping
our
life-saving
interventions
and
efforts,
and
so
we
just
have
to
work
harder
and
do
more
faster.
I
I
Unfortunately,
to
this
point,
the
minister
has
rejected
the
timeline
to
complete
the
action
plan,
as
recommended
by
the
death
review
panel.
Saying-
and
I
quote,
it
doesn't
work
and
quote
time
is
of
the
essence,
despite
the
the
minister
refusing
to
do
so
previously.
Will
she
today
reconsider
her
opposition
and
commit
to
tabling
a
30
60
90
day
action
plan
by
the
death
review
panels
may
9th
deadline.
D
Thank
you.
I
support
the
actions
described
in
the
death
review
panel
and
I
have
said
in
this
house
and
I've
said
so
publicly
the
day
that
the
report
was
released
but
would
to
for
me
to
give
communities
and
people
that
are
losing
loved
ones
every
day,
a
false
sense
of
confidence
that
we
can
do
in
30
days
what
this
province
has
been
trying
to
do
for
the
last
five
years.
D
What
what
would
be
gained
from
that
this
is.
We
are
losing
people
every
day
but
saying,
let's
just
turn
it
around
in.
Let's
change
that
terrible
outcome
in
30
days
it
it
it's
it.
I
wish
that
it
could
be
so
I
wish
that
it
could
be
so.
J
Thank
you
honorable
speaker,
the
death
review
panel
found
that
most
deaths
occurred
among
young
people.
Yet
this
minister,
who
is
cutting
youth
detox
services
during
a
crisis
and
is
far
behind
on
our
promises,
found
foundry
centers
massively
delayed
youth
treatment
beds
that
aren't
open
after
two
years
and
integrated
child
and
youth
teams
that
are
not
even
staffed
years
after
they
were
announced.
J
D
The
member
mentioned
foundries
11
locations
open
now
of
these
inspiring
integrated
reproductive
health,
primary
health
care,
mental
health,
counseling
addictions,
counseling
support,
11
locations
now
and,
as
I
assured
the
member
in
estimates,
burns
lake
comox,
cranbrook,
langley,
squamish,
surrey,
port
hardy
williams,
lake,
all
about
to
open
delayed,
certainly
by
supply
chain
and
construction
through
the
pandemic,
but
soon
to
open
and
many
of
them
in
this
calendar
year
and
coming
months.
I
hope
the
expansion
of
early
psychosis
interventions,
53
million
dollars
well
implemented
across
the
province.
D
I
see
why
teams
coming
on
board
working
with
dan's
legacy
and
other
organizations
to
do
that.
Work
of
stabilizing
youth
after
an
overdose
across
the
continuum
and
across
every
stakeholder,
we're
working
directly
with
people
on
the
front
lines,
adding
services
in
every
way
as
fast
as
we
can
and
that
work
continues.
J
Thanks
honorable
speaker
and
I
believe
the
minister
must
believe
that
we're
making
these
questions
up
in
these
stories
up
because
the
fact
remains
that
there
are
significant
challenges
happening,
youth
and
families
have
lost
that
have
lost
loved
ones
deserve
action.
Now
the
premier
either
genuinely
thought
that
bill
22
was
important
enough
to
plunge
our
province
into
an
election
in
the
middle
of
a
pandemic,
or
he
was
only
cynically
using
it
as
an
excuse.
J
Here
we
are
two
years
later
and
there's
still
no
sign
of
legislation,
and
this
is
what
the
premier
said,
and
I
quote.
I
believe
that
this
is
an
important
bill,
because
we've
talked
to
parents,
who've
lost
children,
end
quote:
can
the
minister?
Can
this
government
tell
those
parents
why,
after
the
ndp
used
it
as
a
political
excuse
that
they've
taken
no
action
for
two
years
on
helping
these
families.
D
You,
let
me
be
clear,
I
don't
agree
with
the
members
characterization
of
the
premier's
actions
or
or
of
our
government's
actions.
But
I
will
say,
safety
of
youth
is
our
government's
top
priority.
D
Increasing
funding
for
mental
health
and
substance
use
services,
supporting
initiatives
that
meet
youth
where
they're
at
like
the
dan's
legacy
project
that
we
are
funding
in
four
hospitals,
where
peers
connect
with
youth
right
after
an
overdose,
build
that
so
that
relationship
and
trust
and
connect
them
to
a
range
of
health
care
and
social
services,
opening
more
community
foundry
centers
and
moving
foundry
online
and
establishing
the
foundry
app
so
that
people
anywhere
in
the
province
can
connect
with
care.
And
there
is
more
that
we've
done
and
there's
more
to
do.
K
K
K
Now,
with
the
new
death
review
panel
out
still
ignored,
123
promised
youth
treatment
beds,
of
which
only
28
are
open.
Yet
the
ministry
tries
to
make
it
sound
like
there's
expanded
youth
treatment
options,
the
reality
is
they're
falling
further
and
further
behind,
as
we
slowly
climb
from
six
deaths
per
day
on
average
to
seven
deaths
per
day
on
average
under
this
government
and
this
minister's
watch
for
youth
struggling
with
addictions,
the
ndp
are
making
things
worse
and
not
better
the
facts
back
it
up
and
now.
K
They're
closing
youth,
detox
treatment
and
the
minister
can
try
to
say
it'll
be
seamless.
History
will
say
that
has
not
happened
since
2017..
Here's.
What
rebecca
pollard
says-
and
I
quote,
I'm
a
registered
nurse
and
feel
this
move
is
reprehensible
in
the
current
context
of
the
opioid
crisis
and
increased
substance
use
in
the
youth
population,
we
need
more
of
these
centers
to
open,
urgently
and
certainly
not
closed.
Please
reverse
your
decision
immediately.
K
End
quote
or
stephanie
benedict
ben
dixon,
who
says-
and
I
quote:
why
are
we
taking
the
service
away
when
we
are
in
the
middle
of
an
overdose
crisis?
Helping
homeless
youth
is
key
to
preventing
future
crises,
not
to
mention
it's
just
the
right
thing
to
do.
I
can't
believe
we
live
in
a
society
that
thinks
taking
away
this
service
makes
sense,
so
we
have
workers
in
the
system.
We
have
nurses
in
the
system.
We
have
the
coroner
saying
this
government
is
not
doing
enough
fast
enough.
B
D
In
addition
to
the
48
new
youth
addiction
treatment
beds
that
we
have
opened
already,
there
will
be
another
almost
100,
that
we
are
on
course
to
open.
We
have
expanded
early
psychosis
funding,
we
have
taken,
we
have,
and
in
relation
to
the
to
the
death
review
panel
in
2017,
we
have
added
drug
testing.
We
have
closed
loopholes
in
the
regulations
for
addiction,
treatment
beds.
D
Much
of
that
work
is
complete
as
much
as
we
were
able
to
do
within
the
existing
framework
and
we've
closed
regulations
in
every
case
that
we
can
in
every
case
that
we
can.
We
continue
to
work
to
repair
a
damaged
system
that
we
inherited
and
we
will
continue
to
do
the
work
every
day
and
and
would
be
so
grateful
for
the
partnership
of
the
opposition.
D
Rather
than
to
alarm
community
members
that
we
are
losing
services,
there
will
be
no
loss
of
service
with
connections.
There
will
be
more
services
for
people
more
attuned
and
more
in
line
with
what
the
young
people
that
we
have
asked
what
they
need
for.
That's
the
way
that
our
government
works
informed
by
the
people
that
need
and
use
the
service,
and
that
is
the
system
of
care
that
we
are
working
hard
every
day
to
build.