Petition About Fentanyl Poisonings

John Hedican of Courtenay has submitted a petition to the House of Commons and invites others to add their names. Hedican writes, “We are grateful that Member of Parliament Gord Johns, MP for Courtenay-Alberni, British Columbia riding, strongly supports our position on changes needed and will fervently defend our petition in the House of Commons.‎”

This petition calls on the Government of Canada to:

1. Declare the current opioid overdose and fentanyl poisoning crisis a National Public Health Emergency under the Emergencies Act, in order to manage and resource it, with the aim to reduce and eliminate preventable deaths;

2. Reform current drug policy to decriminalize personal possession; and

3. Create with urgency and immediacy a system to provide safe unadulterated access to substances so that people who use substances, experimentally, recreationally, or chronically, are not at imminent risk of overdose due to a contaminated source.

You may sign online or print a paper copy. A person can only sign a petition one time.

The petition needs a minimum of 500 signatures to go before the House of Commons and the more signatures the better. Individuals may sign; PAN organizations can print and post this information for others to see it.

If you wish to sign the petition

Option 1: Sign online

Option 2: Use paper copies to gather multiple signatures

You may gather signatures on a paper petition and mail (no need for postage) to Gord Johns once you have a minimum of 25 signatures. This allows Johns to speak to this in the House of Commons, possibly every time he gets another set mailed to him.

Download paper copy of petition

The petition will be closed for signatures on July 25, 2018, at 5:10 p.m. (EDT)