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LILLEY: Carney, like Trudeau, downplays fentanyl crisis

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Mark Carney told a crowd in Kelowna that fentanyl isn’t a crisis in our country.

Donald Trump has been demanding that Canada do something about the fentanyl crisis.

In B.C. alone, 2,253 people died from opioid overdoses in 2024 , almost all of it attributable to fentanyl.

Fentanyl is a major issue in Canada and we need to treat it as such for our own country and our own citizens.

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62

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55

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51

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informal

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English

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44

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likely offensive

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not hateful

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