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Work with Southeast Asia to help stem fentanyl flow, says UN rep

This year fentanyl was a hot topic for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime annual visit Canada to make sure its work is part of Global Affairs’ planning.

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN
November 7, 2018

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Poilievre might not have solutions to Canada’s opioid epidemic, but Senator Dalphond does

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To be clear: amending Sec. 40 (3) of the CPCA will not end Canada’s opioid epidemic. Far from it. But Bill S-256 is a concrete solution to a significant part of a much larger societal issue—and that’s more than what Pierre Poilievre has proposed thus far.

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