An injection of reason: Critical analysis of bill C-2 in Canada

Canada’s Shame: Parliament considers regressive drug policy bill

In 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada found that supervised consumption services save lives, ordering that Vancouver’s Insite be granted an exemption by the federal Ministry of Health allowing it to continue to operate. Flouting the spirit and the letter of this ruling, the Government of Canada devised Bill C-2 (An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act), legislation that would make supervised consumption services harder to establish. (The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Pivot Legal Society helped to craft 21 amendments to this bill, put forward at committee, and all were – as expected – defeated by the government.) Bill C-2 could soon become law. Please read An Injection of Reason: Critical Analysis of BillC-2,the Legal Network’s joint rights-based submission (with theCanadian Drug Policy Coalition) to parliamentarians.

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