British Columbia’s solicitor general says there’s no evidence of widespread diversion of safe-supply opioids, after a recent drug seizure was cited by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre to criticize the provincial program.
Mike Farnworth says he’s spoken to the RCMP’s commanding officer in B.C. about the seizure in Prince George and was told that the idea that there is widespread diversion is “simply not true.”
He says Smith and Poilievre shouldn’t have made claims about the seizure without waiting for all the information.
RCMP in Prince George said last week that the seized pills included morphine and hydromorphone, two
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