FUREY: Coming together to tackle the opioid crisis

The Alberta Progressive Conservative government of Danielle Smith is putting a lot of effort into tackling addictions and they’re doing it by focusing on treatment.

But they’re not the only ones. The NDP government in British Columbia under new Premier David Eby is also going hard on treatment. They’ve even been toying with the idea of involuntary treatment for people who face multiple overdoses.

It’s rare to see a policy approach be embraced by two politicians of such different partisan outlooks.

Anthony Furey discusses the push to tackle opioid addictions across Canada in his latest video.