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#194 - Elenore Sturko (BC Liberal Party)

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Is It a Stigma?

I think part of it too is political ideology, perhaps, you know, when I look at so under the BC Liberals. We don't see so much of a push in the last six years to include those services together. You know, and those are just different political priorities or beliefs. But I can tell you just at a human level, I'm sure British Columbians, it's incredibly disheartening to see 11,000 people have died. And yet we've been in a public health emergency since 2017 for the opioid crisis and we don't see the same kind of urgency. Yeah. Is it a stigma? Is it something against people with addiction? I don't know.

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