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When denials are disproved, the B.C. NDP shoots the messenger

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B.C. government-approved safer supply drugs were being diverted to the illicit market.

The illicit trade had been predicted from the outset of the experiment in dispensing safe supply drugs without supervision.

But each bit of evidence of diversion ran into a stonewall of denials and evasions from cabinet ministers.

Opposition MLA Elenore Sturko released a leaked-copy of a confidential briefing document.

Osborne sought credit for the government launching the investigation.

Osborne said the New Democrats did not deny and diminish the evidence of diversion.

The only reason the public knew anything about the illicit trade was owing to news reporting and work by the Opposition .

No wonder the NDP ’s final outrage was to condemn the leak that exposed the truth.

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65

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English

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short-lived

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