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Senator Jane Cordy and Senator Raymonde Gagné

Senator Jane Cordy is from Nova Scotia. She is vice chair of the Human Rights Committee and is also a member of the Energy Committee and the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Committee in the Senate. Senator Raymonde Gagné is from Manitoba. She is a member of the Official Languages Committee, Transport and Communications Committee and Agriculture and Forestry Committee in the Senate.

Opioids are killing Canadians in the thousands, ‘we need to care more’

Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, medical director of Ottawa Inner City Health, told the caucus that less than one kilometre from Parliament Hill opioids are easily available on the street. 'I now see 150 heroin addicts and five overdoses every day,' he said. Image courtesy of Air Force Medicine
Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, medical director of Ottawa Inner City Health, told the caucus that less than one kilometre from Parliament Hill opioids are easily available on the street. 'I now see 150 heroin addicts and five overdoses every day,' he said. Image courtesy of Air Force Medicine
Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, medical director of Ottawa Inner City Health, told the caucus that less than one kilometre from Parliament Hill opioids are easily available on the street. 'I now see 150 heroin addicts and five overdoses every day,' he said. Image courtesy of Air Force Medicine
Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, medical director of Ottawa Inner City Health, told the caucus that less than one kilometre from Parliament Hill opioids are easily available on the street. 'I now see 150 heroin addicts and five overdoses every day,' he said. Image courtesy of Air Force Medicine