Poilievre calls supervised consumption sites drug dens, vows to close some [Video]

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre gave his clearest position yet on supervised consumption sites, referring to them as “drug dens” and vowing to shut down some of these sites if elected prime minister.

Poilievre also said a Conservative government would pull federal funding for such operations.

“We will close safe injection sites next to schools, playgrounds, anywhere else they endanger the public,” Poilievre said Friday.

He held the news conference at a playground in southwest Montreal — near a transitional housing project that also includes a supervised consumption site — that has been a source of controversy in the community.

“We will defund them. There will not be a single taxpayer dollar from the Poilievre government going to drug dens. Every single penny will go to treatment and recovery service, to bring our loved ones home drug-free,” Poilievre said.

The Conservative leader criticized the riding’s Liberal MP, Marc Miller, of “doing nothing” to address public safety …