Trio of Metro Vancouver councillors call for end of B.C.s decriminalization pilot [Video]

The British Columbia government is facing new pushback over its drug decriminalization pilot project, this time from a trio of city councillors.

Linda Annis in Surrey, Daniel Fontaine in New Westminster and Alexa Loo in Richmond have joined together to call on the province to scrap the program.

“I have never seen this kind of open drug use in Richmond, I have never seen this level of encampments in Richmond, I have never seen the amount of suffering in Richmond, people standing in that zombie pose,” Loo told Global News.

“You have to have treatments available for when people want it. What we are doing now is actually making things worse.”

B.C. is just over a year into its three-year pilot, which decriminalized the possession of up to 2.5 grams of several common street drugs.

The initiative operates with an exemption to federal drug laws granted by Health Canada.

The three …