First Nations call on Ottawa to crack down on drug traffickers in their communities
By Canadian Press on September 5, 2025.
OTTAWA — First Nations chiefs today called on Ottawa to crack down on the people selling drugs that are claiming lives in their communities.
Chief Angela Levasseur of Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation says she brought the resolution forward at the Assembly of First Nations annual general meeting in Winnipeg because the opioid epidemic is killing members of her community.
Joseph Fourre, whose son died of fentanyl poisoning after consuming what he thought was ecstasy, spoke alongside Levasseur as they urged chiefs to support the resolution.
He says the RCMP told him that because his son consented to consuming ecstasy, there was no way to hold anyone criminally accountable for his death.
Fourre says “Harlan’s Law,” named after his son, would take on the drug traffickers who have “targeted” First Nations communities.
The proposed law would sentence drug traffickers to a minimum of 15 years in cases where death occurs from tainted drugs, and give law enforcement the authority to access victims’ cellphones to find out where the drugs were purchased.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 5, 2025.
Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press
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Really? Good luck with that! The Liberal government’s ‘soft’ on drug policies have bound the hands of police in multiple areas. It is part of the harm reduction policies promoted by insane non-profits who believe police charging people only adds to the addiction issues the addicts suffer.
Until we reverse these insane policies and get tough on drugs again and act on open drug use as well, we will continue to see families destroyed and people die from addictions and related crimes.
You put the Liberal government back in to continue their drug policies that destroyed BC, to a point that BC is now a legal drug dealer, giving fentanyl, cocaine, ketamine, etc to addicts, who still die from overdoses from those drugs, but they do not count those ‘safe drugs’ in their fatal overdose t
statistics, only the ‘illegal toxic’ drug fatal overdoses are counted!
If all the provinces and all the First Nations stood shoulder to shoulder to end this crisis, they would get the message and focus on treatment and recovery programs, instread of enabling addicts and allowing organized crime to earn the revenues off of the carnage!
PM Carnage will not listen!