People Will Die.

WeCanDealWithPoliticalOpportunistsNow

OrWeCanDealWithTheirDisastrousPoliciesLaterVille

Here is just the lede and the final paragraph from an excellent post on safe consumption, and the man who would end it, by Jody Paterson:

If Pierre Poilievre was just some random dude with a Twitter account and an uninformed opinion, we could just leave him to it and shrug off his ridiculous view that providing safe consumption sites and non-poisoned drugs for people "will only lead to their ultimate deaths."... 

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...Many more people will die because the tweet of a man given status as a future political leader will dampen political and public enthusiasm even more for taking action on what is surely one of the most outrageous, preventable tragedies of our times. It doesn't get more hateful than that.

Ms. Paterson lays out the evidence, which is clear and unequivocal, for her final paragraph the middle of her post which I strongly suggest you go and read in its entirety.

Jody also asks why the corpMedia deals with this stuff in a way that only serves to elevate the foolish and dangerous (not to mention politically expedient) utterances of the good Mr. Poilievre:

...Why do the media allow him to "reignite the debate around safe supply," as the Global TV story puts it, by giving his tweet public profile as if he was actually saying something of substance?

Granted, the media did find people to refute Poilievre as they covered the "story" of his disparaging tweet. But the damage is done when you give the guy the top third of a story to spout his harmful nonsense....

Why do the fine folks running our corpMedia?

Because they are doing their best to play the balanced 'he said/she said game'.

But what if they decided that they wouldn't allow opportunists like Mr. Poilievre exploit their penchance for fairness and balance and instead dealt first with the indisputable facts so that they could lead with the demonstrable truth, which in this specific case would be:

"People Will Die If Canada Adopts Pierre Poilievre's Call For An End To Safe Consumption Sites And The Curtailment Of Safe Supply."

That is all.

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