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Originally Posted by chemgear
CBC and various news outlets have seen the leak and it's published out there and not hard to find.
https://www.bcunitedcaucus.ca/wp-con...hospitals-1642
Unless you're saying that there is some kind of a vast conspiracy with the mainstream media here. And again if you're concerned about some conspiracy that the memo is hosted at that site, the government and hospital hasn't objected that it is somehow false. In fact, CBC says specifically they acknowledged it . . . "A Ministry of Health spokesperson said in a statement that the policy outlined in the memo has since been superseded" after the public found about the memo.
As for relating to decriminalization, CBC notes "It came a few months after the possession of small amounts of certain drugs were decriminalized in the province under a three-year pilot project."
Additionally, the memo literally points to decriminalization specifically right at the start as a the reason for the change in policy:
Therefore, under direction from Risk Management and Professional Practice:
Possession of a substance of 2.5 g of substance is no longer an offence and a new CPS related to this is going to be published within the next month or so it’s in final stages. With decriminalization of possession of drugs/substances (small amounts for personal use), staff should not be searching a patient’s personal belongings and taking away, or holding onto their substances. These can remain with the patient.
Staff DO NOT remove personal items from the patient’s room, even if there is a knife or something considered as a weapon under 4” long. We use our best professional judgement on this and risk of violence factors.
Staff Do not call RCMP to go through personal items for a patient and do not call security to do the same Police are only called for gunshot wounds and stabbings and related concerns. |
Thanks. I looked and couldn't find it.
As I suspected, it came from Northern Health Authority. It looks to me like some numb nuts at the HA conflated security/safety and illegal search concerns with decrim.
I wasn't saying there was a conspiracy by the mainstream media. It is shoddy reporting though, IMO.
There are 5 HAs (Island, Vancouver Coastal, Fraser, Interior, and Northern). They all have mandates from MoH and MMHA, but they are largely autonomous in how they apply those mandates and manage operations. The fact that this memo was only distributed my one HA tells me that it was likely a misunderstanding of policy/legislation by staff at HA.
So to my previous point, this doesn't look to be a policy drummed up and distributed by central bureaucrats or the sitting government, which makes the BCU's theatrics more than a little disingenuous. But hey, that's showbiz, baby.
I probably shouldn't #### on Northern HA too much. They have one of the hardest regions to run, and it's very hard for them to get qualified staff due to how remote they are.