Parents fight for change after 13-year-old girl dies in B.C. homeless camp : canada

In the end they ended up withdrawing the bill because drug policy "advocacy" groups (the usual players like Pivot legal, the "Canada drug policy coalition", "Moms stop the-harms", etc intervened and said that this bill would erode the rights of drug users, infantilize them (even though this bill was specifically for literal children….), and would go against "harm reduction principles". Many of us would argue that the best way of reducing harm to a child would be to have them off of drugs altogether, rather than letting them repeatedly OD, but we weren't well funded lobby groups so the BC govt didn't listen to us and ended up towing the line of these organizations.

NGOs are a fricking menace. get woke to the NGO question, these people will do anything to perpetuate their own careers, if their chosen problem is ever solved they'll be completely out of a job.