Politics Briefing: Conservatives move to ban non-medicinal drug usage within hospitals

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Hello, Pierre Poilievre says his federal Conservatives will propose a bill to prevent patients and others from using their own hard drugs in hospitals, curbing decriminalization powers of the federal health minister. The Official Opposition leader announced the plan during a news conference in Vancouver today, across the street from downtown St. Paul’s Hospital. He said the Safe Hospitals Act would end the power of the federal health minister to grant exemptions under the Controlled Drug and Substances Act if it would allow people to use drugs such as fentanyl and methamphetamine in hospitals. Poilievre said the bill will not...