Episode 10 addresses a CBC report about Premier Wab Kinew claiming the province had no idea - for months- that his government didn't need to wait for federal approval to open a safe consumption site.
Part 1- A brief review of the latest columns from Marty Gold in the Winnipeg Sun, which include:
Downtown BIZ survey exposes city’s Transit woes; Bad news that Gillingham and Lukes can’t spin
Winnipeg Metropolitan Region membership meltdown; Sinking ship has lost more members than it now has aboard
Secret SCS files raise safety alarms; NDP’s consumption site plan lets minors in and lets impaired drivers leave
20.16 Part 2- Last Thursday, CBC Manitoba reported:
"Premier Wab Kinew says the province has learned it no longer needs Health Canada approval to open a supervisedconsumption site under the "urgent public health needs" stream.”
Anchor Brittany Greenslade: “So Ian, what changed?"Reporter Ian Froese: “It’s not exactly clear, Brittany.”
Despite CBC having an enormous taxpayer-funded budget, thousands of journalists, hundreds of producers and dozens of researchers, they couldn't be bothered to even look into if and how Wab Kinew was duping them.
We explain how, and why it's impossible to believe that the NDP government didn't know until last week.
Get the details about how the application for the Henry Avenue site was filed under a different drug law exemption clause under Section 56 of the federal legislation than the abandoned Disraeli Freeway proposal.
Even if Kinew didn't realize it (unlikely), then his Addictions Minister Bernadette Smith should have.
Then again, as our Sun report about the 311 page Access To Information file released by Health Canada showed, she and officials from the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre repeatedly claimed no one had ever died at an SCS in Canada- yet the application for the Disraeli site specifically admitted a death had occurred.
Does Smith not read the material she promotes, or does she just have a problem telling the truth to the public when it comes to her pet project?
You'll hear an explanation of the differences between applying for a Sec. 56.1 exemption and a Sec. 56 (1) exemption, which is an "urgent public health need service" provision. That's the reason why CBC is confused- and should be admonished for failing to try to figure out the game the NDP is playing.
A key difference is that under the UPHNS rules is that Bernadette Smith would not be responsible to the feds for the operation of the Henry site- it would be a name that has not been mentioned once by Kinew or Smith.
Was the NDP trying to shield their embattled Health Minister from public and media scrutiny by keeping the name of Uzoma Asagwara out of their SCS narratives? Because it's Asagwara who will have to defend the policies of allowing children to use drugs at the site and allowing drivers to get their fix and leave.
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