Subhead:Conservative MP Dan Mazier recently highlighted testimony at a parliamentary health committee that should make every Canadian stop and ask some very uncomfortable questions.# YouTube-embed:h4Acpi1ou2Y While people rot in addiction on the streets of Vancouver and families bury their children, an entire industry has grown up around Canada’s drug crisis. Taxpayer-funded programs handing out opioids. Vending machines dispensing drugs — and now we’re learning that some of the very people who pushed these policies may have built businesses around them. If that’s true, this is evil profiteering off human misery. And the people paying the price are the addicts themselves. While politicians and public health bureaucrats debate ideology in conference rooms, the reality on the streets is brutal: people are dying; people are languishing in absolute misery. Families are watching their loved ones slowly disappear into addiction. And in British Columbia, the death toll just keeps climbing. In January alone, 150 people died from toxic drugs in B.C — that’s nearly five people every single day. Five people who didn’t get recovery. Five people who didn’t get their lives back. Five people whose addictions were managed instead of ended. Five families grieving. Yet instead of asking whether their policies are failing, the political and public health establishment in B.C. keeps doubling down. More “safe supply.” More decriminalization. More taxpayer funding for programs that distribute drugs. And now, even machines that dispense opioids. But now another disturbing layer to this story is emerging.