CHECK OUT MY MONTREAL PHOTO OPP! 📸 Since I’ve taken vacation days to come to Montreal for a speaking engagement, I decided to stop by The Maison Benoît Labre, a new facility that contains 36 studio apartments, a kitchen and drop-in centre for people who are transitioning out of homelessness, as well as the city’s first supervised inhalation centre. Bon travail Montreal! What a great initiative to support people into a safer, healthier life 💪 I also checked out the park next door. You know the one. Last week, @CPC_HQ leader @PierrePoilievre staged his photo opp there, and said it was where “We’re seeing children terrorized by drugs, by potential violence, by gross sex acts, by needles and other danger.” Then he called overdose prevention sites “drug dens” and said he will defund them. I had a good look around the park, and saw … none of the above. I saw kids playing and having fun. There were no drug users, needles, paraphernalia, etc. Residents of the community who use drugs were not doing so in the park, because instead they have a new safe space, with life-saving services, supports and connections to health care and treatment. Great to see this approach working as it should, to protect the health and safety of ALL people in this community! FYI Pierre: if you defund overdose prevention sites, then children all over Canada will indeed see drug use, overdoses, and DEATH from the #ToxicDrugCrisis. #AllTheTools #cdnpoli