Danielle Smith and the UCP press ahead with their Compassionate Intervention Act - otherwise known as the controversial involuntary treatment program. I’d like to set aside the issue of the merits of such a program to highlight that this is the same UCP dream team implicated in allegations of corruption - the Corrupt Care cluster of contracts.

Further, as Post 110 revealed, Marshall Smith may have had some involvements with this involuntary treatment planning, and potential conflicts of interest as this program was being laid out.

As a quick reminder, Mentzelopoulos’ Wrongful Dismissal Claim suggests that Dan Williams knows something about the alleged conflicts of interests that flow out of the Corrupt Care contracts.

Whether Netizens can even believe such a UCP group can administer this Act safely, look just at what’s being proposed here. As Climenhaga and others already pointed out, these facilities will be jails.

I’d suggest Netizens consider that this group of UCP insiders, vulnerable to group-think, and are still very much human. This group has cut social safety nets, reduced funding to outreach programs, and have eroded the effectiveness of how healthcare is provided in the province. Now, this same crack team proposes to roll out an untested, potentially Charter non-compliant piece of legislation targeting the vulnerable.

We should clarify that the vulnerable will inevitably be the coloured people, First Nations people, Metis, the women, the young, the children.

And, we also accept that police are human, and they make mistakes like any other.

Now, Netizens have to stomach the idea that those who end up targeted mistakenly will be subject to treatment they cannot refuse. Police and people some times allege that others are intoxicated - or they have the appearance of being intoxicated. But in a Criminal Justice setting these are allegations that still must eventually be proven.

What’s the burden of proof here? What if this is simply false? What if the person in question is just “different”, and not even intoxicated? Their bodies are flooded with medications that may have intended effects, and unintended outcomes. Where’s the line? What if someone’s found to have abused this Act for their own designs? Surely the reporters are coming from a position of strength relative to the actual target.

But, the targeted one can still somehow “ask” for legal counsel. Their bodies, filled with drugs they don’t ask for, they can “ask” for an advocate?

This Act is designed to turn people away from the Healthcare system - to potentially put Healthcare Workers, Police, Lawyers, and the public in impossible situations. When people die as a result of these treatments, who speaks for them?

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-introduces-controversial-involuntary-addictions-treatment-bill-1.7511051