I am not one bit surprised to hear this. Having worked in indigenous communities across BC, Yukon, Northwest Territories and northern Ontario for the past 25 years, I am surprised it has taken this long. Bringing "clean needles" and "safe pills" into communities that are already trying to mitigate the colonial imposition of alcohol and cannabis is not going to do anything but further alienate people who live there. Introducing free-range "harm reduction" strategies that don't even work in urban centres but make certain woke activists feel righteous is just a new form of colonial patriarchy, imposing itself and bullying its way into communities already harmed by outside "white" values they never needed.
I am not one bit surprised to hear this. Having worked in indigenous communities across BC, Yukon, Northwest Territories and northern Ontario for the past 25 years, I am surprised it has taken this long. Bringing "clean needles" and "safe pills" into communities that are already trying to mitigate the colonial imposition of alcohol and cannabis is not going to do anything but further alienate people who live there. Introducing free-range "harm reduction" strategies that don't even work in urban centres but make certain woke activists feel righteous is just a new form of colonial patriarchy, imposing itself and bullying its way into communities already harmed by outside "white" values they never needed.