Did John Rustad witness a fatal overdose before the B.C. leaders’ debate? [Video]

During the campaign, BC Conservative Leader John Rustad has repeatedly said people are “dying on the streets” in the province – and on Tuesday he claimed to have witnessed that very thing in downtown Vancouver while he was on his way to the leaders’ debate.

“I was on my way over here, and at the corner of Robson and Hornby (streets) there’s an individual who died, and there was emergency people rushing. This person died from an overdose. This is the British Columbia that David Eby has created,” Rustad said during the debate.

The BC Coroner’s Service, which investigates every overdose death in the province, told CTV News it is “not investigating a drug toxicity death” at that location Tuesday.

The first question Rustad was asked after the debate was about the story he told, and what exactly he saw. His answer began with an explanation of why he said …