"Doomed for death and destruction": Pierre Poilievre on BC drug decriminalization pilot program 

I live in BC, I am sick of seeing what looks like someone dead on a bus stop.

how can they smoke drugs in places where you cannot smoke tobacco

Say what you want, but Pierre Poilievre is absolutely correct. BC must reverse course, and Toronto must never allow this stupid program to come into their city. It's bloody ridiculous.

well I will be damned the first honest thing Global has done in 5 years.

You need serious help if you think we should resolve this opioid crisis by giving addicts more drugs

I liked this video for the simple fact that Global News actually interviewed Pierre Poilievre.

Hire back all the trained nurses the NDP fired! Let's start with that....

I live in Victoria BC and had to take someone downtown to the Ministry od Social Development office. We had to walk through a row of addicts smoking meth/crack!! I kept the baby with me while she had to walk through that, into the office by herself. SINGLE MOTHERS WITH THEIR CHILDREN have to visit that office. THIS IS BEYOND UNACCEPTABLE.

I'm an immigrant of 20yrs in Canada, the country has gone massively downhill under Trudeau. I truly believe our only chance is to elect Pierre in a massive majority.

This is an excellent interview - I hope 41M Canadians watch this and listen very close

Now people from B.C ,I hope you think before you vote NDP again. Please 🙏

The only reason B.C. doesn't have enough nurses is they won't hire them back.

Pierre you've got this, don't change a thing, Canadian's believe in you and the Conservative Party and Canadian's have never been more determined to end this current rogue government and we will, in record number's, with a Conservative Majority Government 👏👏👏👏👏

Eby and Trudeau need to go.

It would be much better to fund more affordable rehab facilities than to give free drugs.

God Bless Mr. Poilievre for fighting for common sense drug reform. The drug epidemic in London Ontario is unbelievable. This isn’t the Canada of 10 years ago.

i live on vancouver island . we have had enough . long time ago

Yesterday, I rode my bicycle in Toronto Downtown. I saw many people acting like nuts consuming drugs right in front of me. Toronto Downtown looks like third world city with crime every where.

I live in BC and when schools are going on lockdown because drug addicts are coming in weilding knives and creating chaos, we have a problem. Burning buildings down, taking peoples livelihoods away from them, we have a problem. Our children becoming desensitized to seeing someone overdosing on the street, it is just now a normal day to day thing they see, we have a problem. We can't keep going down this path...a change is needed.

Thank you for actually doing journalism here! Good job Pierre! Treatment for addiction is the only way.

Has Global asked Jagmeet for his position in decriminalized hard drugs in NDP BC? Should be instantly revealing about what side of the fence he really sits. That, to me would be interesting news.

We’ve never been to Victoria. We visited it a couple of weeks ago and spent a couple of days downtown. The druggies downtown were disturbing and takes away from what I believe is a place Canada should be proud of. We probably won’t go back.

Pierre makes me proud to be Canadian again. He will be an excellent Prime Minister.

I finally feel like watching Global if this continues-this felt more like news and reporting!! Actually talking/interviewing without some sort of media agenda. We the listener could be informed and make our own decisions about core concerns in our country.

Thank you Pierre for having a voice for mental health (addiction), health care, general public, crimes….ripple effect. It’s refreshing to have a Canadian leader that is for healing mental health not feeding it with drugs. Prescription drugs are very addictive and many families have endured hardship with this. Thank you for common sense caring :). BC VOTE COMMON SENSE CONSERVATIVES FOR HOPE! AXING THE TAX! BUILDING HOMES! JAIL TIME FOR CRIME! FREEDOM!!

A major protest happened in Vancouver today over affordable housing. Canadians are waking up! Finally. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦👍👍👍❤️

The problem is bigger than usage and rehab. The society as a whole has gone down hill as has the government. Dog eat dog, every person for themselves. Homeless and addicts on the streets are just a visible symptom of the underlying spiritual issue. Loss of hope. Nobody wants to be homeless or addicted. Corruption and wickedness is heart condition. It permeates society at all levels. Unfortunately those on the bottom suffer and perish first.

I gotta be honest, living in Vancouver, I figured decriminalizing drugs was kind of a moot point. People already used openly and recklessly. But now you can literally walk down a street covered in vape level clouds of drug smoke just flowing through the air. It got worse. It’s a miracle of epic proportions in all of the worst ways imaginable. But this actually made the DTES worse. It’s a weird issue because regardless of one’s politics, most people have always been pretty on board with not being able to smoke crack in a kids park. Strange times we are living in.

Thank you Pierre Poilievre , I love common sense, I love Canada too 🇨🇦 ❤

hats off to the interviewer and Global news on this interview very well done. Pierre for PM asap

I have been watching all Pierre debates in the parliament since 2020. So, he is the only person who deserves to be the Canadian PM.

I used to work for a homeless shelter and in my city (we have 3 main male shelters and many smaller female shelters, it was contemplated in 2008-09 by the local and provincial government which also had the BC government coming to our city speaking of the wonders of "safe injection sites etc". At the time, as I was counselling the homeless and helping them to get off the street, I said it was a bad idea. Enabling an addict is the worst form of abuse any organization can have on a society.

I'm conservative party member And I support Pierre Poilievre!

I see it almost every day, drug addicts doing drugs in the pathway leading to my local soccer fields. Children playing soccer can see this and its wrong on several levels. This is what is happening in BC.

Oregon also did this decriminalization experiment in the USA and it was a complete disaster.

That crap should’ve never been legalized including pot!!!

First time in a while, thumbs up for global

New Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre ❤🙏🛡

No drug and alcohol abuse in the world would be a total different world.

I called the police on Wednesday this week to report what appeared to be an overdose adjacent to the main road leading toward the border crossing to the USA in Cornwall, Ontario. A man of middle age in clean clothes and without any sign of homelessness was laying on the sidewalk with both hands grasping his head and covering his eyes, he was rocking back and forth on the ground. There was no way to stop my car without blocking traffic so I pulled over at a car wash about 800 meters up the road and called the police. After waiting through 5 or 6 minutes of recorded bilingual options, and another several minutes listening to a self-stroking speech about government and police DEI initiatives and objectives, a human woman came on the line. I barely got to inform her what I was calling about when she cut me off and said she would transfer me to the ambulance. After waiting on what sounded like dead air for several minutes, another woman came on the line. I once again described the issue and the location. This second woman had no clue of the location; apparently they don't have google maps at the ambulance service. It turns out, she was in Ottawa, an hour away, not in Cornwall. She indicated she had to ask me over a dozen questions I informed her I could not answer as I was 800 meters from the person in distress- that took another minute and a half, maybe two. So, the citizen possibly dying in the street waited while our laughably inept government figured out how to use the alleged automated reporting system costing untold hundreds, of millions of taxpayer dollars. The entire process took 10 minutes...next time I will call 911 and see if that circus performs better. I am not optimistic though, the only time I had to call that line, after being pursued by an aggressive driver trying to literally force me into a ditch, they told me 'it was no big deal'. Your government loathes you citizens, were it not for your wallets they would not give you the time of day.

Decriminalizing in a society that still held values of responsibility and accountability MIGHT work...but we have a society now in which no one's bad choices result in any external consequence. So--sadly--thousands let themselves drift to the very worst potential of their life, knowing someone or some group will keep them alive (food, clothes, a tent). EVERYONE needs guidelines and boundaries to succeed in life!

I 100% agree with Mr. Poilievre. He should be our Prime Minister. Trudeau always said that he wants to help the middle class family in fact Trudeau brought the middle class to poverty.

I live in BC and there is a tug of war for 1st. responders, between public emergencies and drug users. Our health care is stressed enough without the added risk of source exposure.

Oregon's decriminalization of drugs failed miserably and now they are telling us here in Canada NOT to repeat their biggest mistake with this form of legislation!!

Pierre is the real thing. He genuinely cares about Canadians. Anybody voting for anyone else needs to get off their drugs.

Anyone with half a brain knew this was doomed from the start. Handing out free drugs to addicts was a death sentence. Treatment and support during recovery from drug use ,like any other addiction is the only hope.

What is going on with the people of this beautiful country it's a sad state.

Best Talk Ever. Thank You Global for the great Interview. Pierre that was what we needed thank you. Much Appreciation...

We need to do what Afghanistan does with their drug rehabilitation it is like being in jail they round them up off the streets and they can't leave until they are well ,not like ours check in and leave when you feel like it

I just hate Activist Journalists. Give back the money and get out of Canada. China will welcome you.

I live 30mins away from downtown east side in Vancouver. It’s sickening to see what poverty and drugs are doing to our brothers and sisters. Feeding these folks more drugs isn’t the answer. They need help and a way out of the hell hole.

Thankyou Global for this interview.

This was so good to see!! ❤ Much better way for the news and the message!

Make methadone programs actually ween people down and off. There are people who have been getting government methadone for thirty years.

That’s my first global news LIKE in a long time. Let’s see more Pierre. He can answer a questions, speak without yelling and has a profound dislike for Trudeau.

Bonnie Henry has done more damage, and caused more harm than any other health care professional in the history of BC.

PIERRE POILIEVRE PM 2025

it's an extension of the liberal MAID program

Pierre has common sense that’s the difference .

What ever happened to common sense in Canada and around the world

*Get rid of Bonnie Henry* Alberta was smart to get rid of her, but she crawled over to BC.

This is how a real leader speaks.

Thanks Pierre. Wow!!!

Be strong Pierre!! The LPC is the most illicit “government” we’ve ever had. If they don’t like a legitimate and valid law they simply redefine the words and carry on. Hard Drugs have always been a source of death. Canada needs to protect its citizens.

🙏 Pierre Poilievre 4 PM 🇨🇦 🙏Thank you Deputy CPC Leader Melissa Lantsman 🇨🇦 🙏Axe The Tax! 🙏 🙏Spike The Hike! 🙏 🙏Stop the crime! 🙏

How about we take the money spent on 'safe supply' drugs and distribution and put it towards recovery? That's not even taking into account the millions spent on ODs in hospitals and thousands of police calls in relation to drug related violence and crime.

I live in Ottawa Ontario. downtown down the street from parliament hill rideau center. So shameful I want to just leave Ottawa so bad it's . I feel for them but yet it's like another world it's bad. I'm going to start a podcast just to prove my point. Thanks Justin

I’m from Calgary and I visited Vancouver for the first time last year. I was in awe by how many druggies were in the streets, and I didn’t suspect it because I always pictured Vancouver as a big wonderful city. My best friend wanted us to hang out again, but I told her that I didn’t want to go to Vancouver. Instead we went to Victoria which was very beautiful and had a nice ambiance, people there were very friendly and cool!

OMG! I was in Pizza Pizza last week downtown Ottawa on Rideau Street. A drug infused person came in half-naked, demanded pizza. He then kicked in the window from the outside. I was at the cash waiting for my slice. Trudeau has blinders on.

There so many lies I lost track.

Not Justin B.C. it’s everywhere. New Brunswick people are doing the same things.

Common sense conservatives never made more sense. Go Pierre! 🇨🇦

❤️ Go Pierre Go ❤️ Fantastic interview!! About time Global!!

❤ great interview

My town is seeing this happening for the last 4 years! People are ODing daily…

Rehab before free drugs

Thank you pierre for helping drug addicts not killing them giving them taxpaid drugs thst is so wrong

It was a pretty good interview, and it was nice to him clear the air on the "not withstanding clause" as what's being paraded around.

Wow, real journalism from Global.

This guy is already my Prime Minister even though he's not just yet.

That is how a leader and Prime Minister acts. Pierre for Prime Minister! Enough of the Trudeau/NDP regime.

Don’t know where you live but here in British Columbia. It’s exactly what’s going on.

B.C. your in for a real treat after a long drought from something decent and honest give the new guys in your ridings the chance to get us going again, which will definately going to take time but you will be better off for it. CONGRATS on hearing your changing up things up. 🇨🇦🥀👍💖🇧🇲.

First global video I upvote ever! Is real journalism making a comeback?

PP for PM! 🇨🇦

This has got to be the first time I "LIKED" a global video

Compassion start in detox and rehab for ours love ones who fall in drugs abuse from depression and devastation management of Canada from the Liberals/NDP coalition!

Bravo! to Mr. Poilievre for providing excellent responses to the baited questions from the Global New reporter on nonsensical LNDP hyperbole about Alex Jones, and their unsubstantiated claims about a CPC government using our constitution's notwithstanding clause. This was arguably his best interview with the Trudeau-funded news media. Unfortunately the elected LNDP MPs will continue to downplay the contents of this interview and try to fool Canadians in the House.

Canada need the Pierre Poilievre I had a Chance for 2 timed talk to him in person in my opinion he is respectful and humble person and also he listened to my concerns about Canada and he promised to fix it, I do trust Pierre Poilievre more than Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh.

This is the way a proper interview should be conducted!!!!!

Great reporting as well! Respectful, analytical, as well as informative.

wow a good fair interview from canada media

PP FOR PM !

Great to see some real journalism from Global. Keep it up!

Treatment and recovery for an addict starts when he isn't labeled a criminal for drug use

I Love that Pierre remained calm, regardless of the goading, he responded perfectly 👌

12:35 forgot trudeau purposes to loxk people under house arrest for stuff they might do and say

Not a bad interview at all Global , fair and objective questions I enjoyed watching that

Good interview Global. A little respect to you and our next PM who answers questions and has a plan.

Lets regulate drunk driving lanes so the OPP doesn't have to breathalyze every broken tail light they see.