-- "The Greater Vancouver Area’s main institution for those suffering from mental health issues was closed more than four decades ago, when the Downtown Eastside was still a rough, but not yet unliveable neighbourhood. Since then, the meeting of people suffering from ailments such as, but not limited to, schizophrenia with an ample supply of heroin and fentanyl has led to the situation we have today.
Many of the drugs helping to fuel these random attacks are supplied by the provincial NDP government, with their federal Liberal counterparts full endorsement. " --