By Cheryl Jahn

UBCM takes on City’s opioid resolution

Mar 26, 2021 | 3:17 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – In 2019, BC lead the charge in filing a class-action lawsuit against opioid manufacturers, alleging they falsely marketed opioids as less addictive than other pain drugs. The suit seeks to recover costs dating back to 1996 when the pain drug Oxycontin was introduced in the Canadian market.

Last year, the City of Prince George, submitted a resolution to the Union of BC Municipalities, seeking to have the provincial government share in any of the damages. Now, UBCM plans to take this cause on.

In a letter to Council, it wrote: “Upon review, the Executive decided to endorse with an amendment: NR63 Sharing Payments from Opioid Class Action Lawsuits.”

Good news, according to Mayor Lyn Hall. “Many municipalities, it doesn’t matter you are, two thousand, three thousand us at eighty-plus thousand, Vancouver, Surrey. Kelowna. We’re all impacted by this and it is costing us.”

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In fact, according to the Finance Department at City Hall, the City has spent upwards of $2 million per year addressing issues in the downtown around homelessness and drug addiction in the city.