Canadian drug and homeless policies are causing a violation of our right to public safety.

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Form Letter #1

2024-05-08 02:56:15

We provide the first of many form letters for sending to your federal and provincial decision-makers regarding the fallout of the opioid crisis in all of our affected communities across Canada. This first form letter will get us started on calling for change to the current strategies of drug treatment services in our established communities. Feel free to edit or change any of the wording. We must act while we are at a pivotal moment to be heard. 

FEDERAL: Health Committee sean.casey@parl.gc.ca ;  stephen.ellis@parl.gc.ca ; luc.theriault@parl.gc.ca ; todd.doherty@parl.gc.ca ; laila.goodridge@parl.gc.ca ; robert.kitchen@parl.gc.ca ;  brendan.hanley@parl.gc.ca ; majid.jowhari@parl.gc.ca ; peter.julian@parl.gc.ca ; yasir.naqvi@parl.gc.ca ; Marcus.Powlowski@parl.gc.ca ; sonia.sidhu@parl.gc.ca

PROVINCIAL (Ontario): Premier Doug Ford Hon. Michael Tibolo, Assoc. Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Sharie Thompson-Rudder, Deputy Superintendent of Treatment & Programs Hon. Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health doug.fordco@pc.ola.org ; michael.tibolloco@pc.ola.org ; sharie.thompson-rudder@ontario.ca ; sylvia.jones@ontario.ca ;  

PROVINCIAL (British Columbia): Hon.David Eby Hon. Jennifer Whiteside, Associate Minister, Mental Health and Addictions Hon. Adrian Dix, Minister of Health Premier@gov.bc.ca ; MMHA.Minister@gov.bc.ca ; HLTH.Minister@gov.bc.ca ;  

PROVINCIAL (Nova Scotia)   Hon. Tim Houston, Premier Nova Scotia Hon. Brian Comer, Minister, Addictions and Mental Health premier@novascotia.ca Health.Minister@novascotia.ca     

PROVINCIAL (Prince Edward Island)   Hon. Dennis King, Premier Prince Edward Island Hon. D. Mark V. McLane, Minister Health and Wellness premier@gov.pe.ca ; jsburridgeminister@gov.pe.ca ; mamclaneminister@gov.pe.ca   

PROVINCIAL (Newfoundland)   The Honourable Dr. Andrew Furey, Premier The Honourable Tom Osborne, Minister of Health and Community Services andrewfurey@gov.nl.ca ; TOsborne@gov.nl.ca ;  

Subject: Your attention is called to the 'creation of urgency' 

Municipalities responsible for social services, housing, and community healthcare, are mixing their responsibility to maintain safe and healthy communities with a requirement of funding for illegal drug consumption services under the misnomer of so-called 'safe supply' and the claim that this practice is 'saving lives'.   Advocates preach about ‘saving lives’ immediately following each rash of overdoses involving illicit drugs. None will acknowledge or address that addiction and illegal drug use is ESCALATING notwithstanding services that provide access to both government funded drugs and consumption treatment services.    The messaging now is that "urgent public needs" health sites, is the necessary workaround for municipalities to breach the rules, bypassing more strict funding requirements and approval processes. Your attention is called to the 'creation of urgency' by advocacy groups that are promoting illegal and potentially fatal drug use. Stronger drug enforcement would help decrease that perceived and created sense of urgency. Greater education and information on the harms of illegal drug use would slow down the growing trend toward addiction, especially in our youth, all across the country.  The urgency we have now is to break the cycle of illegal drug use, break the cycle of addiction, promote intervention and infuse communities with an abundance of funding for programs that promote prevention, intervention, addiction recovery and social integration.  

Sincerely,
[Your full name here]
 

Breakpoint Communities (formerly Communities 4 Change)

FEDERAL PETITION

2024-04-24 18:33:16

Hello All,

Bringing you an update. Now live on the House of Commons e-petition site calling on the federal government to move away from supporting free drugs and injection sites and instead move towards supporting treatment, recovery, and community safety. This has been formally sponsored by MP Kevin Vuong who shares our advocacy for this issue. Without comprehensive addiction recovery and rehabilitation programs, safe supply/consumption only serve to perpetuate addiction, increase crime, and destroy lives and communities.

Please sign and share.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4930&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3be06bjS8fuZvwnmFWsNfkklpCMkskRDQM7Gr8FL5Ux_IV7-2c91HfnGI_aem_AWKeA-NKT2L3g9IFGD6utlX2r-COevl0BYCMAC3KCG-iV2LDrX72EGPCv26zLJtkNtLJxhfKmTEzkc3IjpF3S7ln 

We invite you to visit our website, subscribe and stay tuned!

https://breakpointcommunities.ca/ 

We are in this together!

BREAKPOINT Communities


Breakpoint Communities

We bring you: BREAKPOINT Communities for Public Safety

2024-04-19 21:17:30

Greetings!

You are receiving our message because you signed this ongoing petition within the last 6 months. While we were busy forming liaisons across the country, the time has finally come to share that collective knowledge, years of research as well as our comparable data and other strategies. We are also at a pivotal moment to take a stand against the further decriminalization of potentially fatal drugs in our communities. Now, the Ontario Chief Medical Officer is promoting decriminalization.

Although this "evidence based strategy" may be well intentioned, evidence based knowledge tells us there is major fallout in the decriminalization project being currently piloted in British Columbia. 

We know that "harm reduction" alone does not end the cycle of addiction. It keeps people trapped and stuck in their trauma. We are subsidizing addiction when we could be subsidizing recovery, social intervention and reintegration. The current trajectory of social housing and drug use programs will bankrupt each community from a financial, social and moral standpoint.

Let's end the fallout of the opioid crisis. Let's end the national public safety crisis! Let's stand together in the movement for change!

Please visit our new website at https://breakpointcommunities.ca and SUBSCRIBE for future action items coming in the VERY near future. Petitions, Form Letters, News...and more. 

BREAKPOINT COMMUNITIES FOR PUBLIC SAFETY

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