QUESTION PERIOD — Health
Supervised Consumption Sites
June 11, 2026
Government leader, yesterday your government introduced legislation that would prohibit Canadians under the age of 16 from accessing social media unless platforms meet strict government standards. Many parents would agree with that, and children deserve to be protected in terms of online risks. What they can’t understand from coast to coast to coast is why your government continues to support policies that allow minors to access supervised drug-consumption sites connected to the use of dangerous narcotics.
Senator Moreau, why is your government prepared at all costs to restrict access to social media for minors, which is reasonable, but unwilling to draw a clear line when it comes to exposing young people to environments where hard drugs are being openly consumed?
Thank you for the question. We will have the honour of studying Bill C-34 that was tabled yesterday — I don’t know exactly when — but the intention of the government is to make sure that young Canadians are protected from harmful exposure to what is prohibited by Bill C-34. Therefore, it is the intention of the government to protect young Canadians from all kinds of harms. We will have the pleasure of hearing what the Conservatives have to say about Bill C-34 in the other place, and then we will be studying it here as well.
I would like you to answer the question, though, government leader. We all understand that we need to protect our children from online harm. But why are you setting a bar for that so much higher than the one for protecting our children when it comes to narcotic and drug use? Why are you lowering the bar for our children with respect to easy access to narcotics? Don’t you understand that the government is setting a precedent here that will create a catastrophic result socially and economically for future generations of Canadians?
The government has invested a tremendous amount of money to make our borders secure, for example, as far as fentanyl is concerned. The government is committed to protecting young Canadians from any situation where their security may be compromised. The government has spent an unprecedented amount of money to secure our borders and to ensure that we are protecting our citizens from drug dealers, especially fentanyl dealers.
