High-ranking UCP members, on multiple occasions last month, said no decision had been made on moving forward with the legislation
Treatment orders, she said, would be based on the needs of each individual and could include out-patient counselling, medical detoxification, in-patient programs and opioid agonist therapy.an extension could be granted. It is also unknown what safeguards, if any, would be outlined in the act to protect against breaching rights enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and how disputes would be handled.
Additionally, provincial drug-treatment courts provide people who commit non-violent offences the option to avoid prison by completing a drug-treatment program. However, it requires voluntary consent. New Democratic Party candidate Lori Sigurdson said, in a statement, that the UCP’s scheme to mandate drug treatment against someone’s will is “doomed to failure, both from a clinical and legal standpoint.”
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