🇨🇦 B.C. built a psychiatry shortcut and called it care

British Columbia was the only province in Canada letting bureaucrats and facility directors impose psychiatric treatment on involuntary patients without even checking whether they were capable of consenting. That little authoritarian convenience has now been struck down as unconstitutional, as the court reported. Justice Lauren Blake gave Eby’s government six months to fix a regime that treated legal rights like optional paperwork.

And this is the real Trudeau-era provincial disease: a state that cannot control drugs, street disorder or institutional collapse suddenly becomes hyper-competent when it comes to overriding citizens. B.C. is ramping up involuntary care beds in Surrey and Prince George while pretending rights can be swept aside for administrative speed. The ministry’s usual word salad about dignity and autonomy lands a bit flat when the province was literally auto-consenting capable patients by force. Same elite playbook every time: fail at prevention, fail at treatment, then grab more power and call it compassion.

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