The B.C. NDP government’s legislation to ban all drug use in a wide range of public spaces has been suspended by the province’s Supreme Court.
The B.C. Restricting Public Consumption of Illegal Substances Act, passed early November, has now been paused for three months pending a review.
The province had banned illegal substance use from all public parks to sports fields and beaches, as well as close to any workplaces, skate parks, pools, transit stops, residences or playgrounds — even within six metres of “a place to which the public has access” and “a prescribed place.”
But B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson ordered the law
