By Craig Lord and Brenna Owen
The Canadian Press
Posted April 19, 2025 1:56 pm
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Conservative Chief Pierre Poilievre is looking for a change in legal guidelines to permit judges to order drug remedy for these scuffling with dependancy.
Poilievre is in Richmond, B.C. on Saturday increasing on his plans to deal with dependancy in Canada.
His thought would give judges the choice to order necessary drug remedy as an alternative to incarceration.
The proposal would apply to offenders whose solely crimes are related to possessing small portions of medicine and different non-violent infractions.
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Poilievre would additionally require rehabilitation applications in prisons for extra critical offenders.
He says these proposals are acceptable in instances the place these scuffling with critical dependancy have misplaced the capability to hunt restoration on their very own.
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