Amid the crime surge happening in Alberta with random stabbings and shootings, the UCP has attacked Rachel Notley’s “extreme activist” NDPs for saying they want to defund the police and give out free heroin to drug addicts.
On Friday, the UCP pointed out that in 2021, the NDP said they wanted to expand the safe injection sites in the province and give out “free heroin.”
The UCP has considered a different approach altogether to the opioid crisis facing the province, with a recent report suggesting Smith plans on proposing a bill that would allow placing addicts in community centers against their will.
The potential legislation would give police, as well as parents or guardians of drug addicts, much greater power to place the users in involuntary treatment centers when considered a risk to themselves or others.
Alberta has seen a spike in random attacks in recent weeks. Random shootings and stabbings are occuring on the streets and public transit on a near daily basis – and sometimes there is more than one incident per day.
Last week, Conservative Party leader of Canada spoke out about British Columbia’s spike in overdose deaths — something he connected to the expansion of safe injection sites across the province.
“Poilievre said since this policy of providing taxpayer-funded drugs was introduced, BC has seen a 300% increase in overdose deaths,” the Western Standard reported.
Last week, Notley called to hire more police officers despite her party members’ history of anti-police rhetoric.
On Sunday, the NDP party released a $40 million public safety plan that calls to hire 150 more police officers as well as an additional 150 social workers such as mental health workers. Notley didn’t attend the policy announcement.
The decision comes after the United Conservative Party called Notley’s NDP “anti-police.”
Notley, a proud supporter of the ‘defund-the-police’ Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, was recently challenged to condemn NDP members’ history of anti-police comments after a slew of random stabbings in Alberta.
