Conservative Party of B.C. MLAs scored a significant win Wednesday even before they opened their mouths to start the inaugural question period in the new parliament.

NDP Health Minister Josie Osborne announced a significant curtailment of the safe supply policy for dealing with opioid addiction and it looks to be in direct response to concerns the Opposition started raising two years ago.

After repeatedly discounting questions about whether hard drugs prescribed to protect people from deadly street supply were being diverted to the black market, the government finally fully acknowledged it is a significant problem.

It was Conservative critic Elenore Sturko who pursued the issue and shared a devastating leaked government document that confirmed the problem. She was on the verge of tears after Osborne’s announcement, thinking about all the lives lost.

After Sturko seized on the issue and independent media stories reporting about the “prescribed alternatives program” around B.C. where patients collect their allotment of pills improperly, or routinely sold them to buyers on the........

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