RUSTAD: There is no dignity in addiction. There is no future in handing out the very substances killing people.
So now we’ve reached a point in British Columbia where people literally caught buying heroin, cocaine, and meth on the dark web… testing it… packaging it… and selling it on the street are not only fighting the charges, but launching a constitutional challenge arguing they had the right to run their own drug-trafficking operation because government policy wasn’t moving fast enough for them. You can’t make this up. You can’t fabricate a clearer indictment of what the NDP has created in this province. A pair of activists, backed for a time by public money, let’s not forget, set up what they proudly called a “compassion club.” They bought hard drugs online. They tested them. They labelled them. And then they sold them. That’s trafficking. Not metaphorically. Not philosophically. Legally. And after being convicted, their response isn’t remorse or accountability, it’s a challenge arguing that the drug laws themselves are unconstitutional because enforcing them “kills people.” This is what ha...