A new Conservative government will end the homelessness and the mental health and addiction crisis that has trapped thousands in dangerous tent cities and made life unsafe for law-abiding Canadians who live near them.

We will do this by reversing the Liberals’ radical pro-drug policies and:

• Amending the Criminal Code to give police the tools to charge individuals when they endanger public safety or discourage the public from using, moving through, or otherwise accessing public spaces by setting up temporary structures, including tents.
• Clarifying in law that police can dismantle illegal encampments and ensure individuals living in them who need help are connected with housing, addiction treatment, and mental health services.
• Giving judges the power to order people charged for illegally occupying public spaces with a temporary structure and simple possession of illegal drugs to mandatory drug treatment.

These encampments are a direct result of radical Liberal policies such as drug decriminalization and unsafe supply. They are extremely dangerous for the people trapped in them, who endure overdoses, assaults, including sexual assaults, human trafficking, and even homicide, as well as the community around them.

Under our plan, tent cities will no longer be an option—but recovery will be. Leaving people trapped by their addictions to live outdoors through Canadian winters, sick, malnourished, cold, wet and vulnerable is the furthest thing from compassionate.

Canadians can’t afford a fourth Liberal term of rising crime and chaos in our streets.

We need a new Conservative government that will end the chaos, restore order on our streets and bring our loved ones home drug-free.

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