TORONTO – Ontario’s Minister of Health Christine Elliott says that she’ll need to see a lot more dead homeless people before she opens three overdose prevention sites in the province.
“Scientific literature and extensive studies for the past 30 years are simply not enough,” Elliott said in a press scrum. “I’ll need to see stiff bodies out in full view, and not just one or two. I’m talking about a couple of dozen who died in the past 24 hours whose heroin was laced with carfentanil.”
The Minister remained skeptical on whether society’s most vulnerable people are actually dying from illicit opioids.
“Some of these people could have dropped dead of natural causes immediately after taking a hit of fentanyl, so we can’t necessarily blame fentanyl,” added Elliott. “We can’t rush to judgement, so these facilities will remain closed for now.”
Elliott said she plans on reviewing each and every single life that may have been saved by a prevention or safe-injection site to see if savings these people had any merit.
Criminal background checks on the deceased will be conducted and bodies will be kicked by Ministry staffers to ensure that no death has been faked for political purposes.
