2,224 people died from toxic drugs in BC in 2021 – a 26-per-cent rise over the previous year. That's more deaths per year than the COVID-19 pandemic.
This public health emergency is going into its sixth year. 2021 is the second year in a row of record-setting deaths.
We can’t afford to move slowly.
Sign the petition to call for an all-party committee to create immediate, stabilizing solutions to the toxic drug crisis.
Petition regarding convening an all-party committee to address the toxic drug crisis
To the Honourable the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, in Legislature Assembled:
The petition of the undersigned, residents of the Province of British Columbia, states that:
Whereas 2,224 people died from toxic drugs in BC in 2021;
and Whereas BC is going into its sixth year of the public health emergency;
and Whereas this is the second year in a row of record-setting deaths;
Your petitioners respectfully request that the Honourable House convene an all-party committee to create immediate, stabilizing solutions to the toxic drug crisis.
Dated 11 day of February, 2022.