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Brown Announces His Call for an Opioid and Fentanyl Awareness Campaign

The Ontario Conservative party is looking to start a new awareness campaign.

Leader Patrick Brown announced on Friday in Timmins that he will be introducing a bill calling for the Liberal government to invest at least 10 per cent of their advertising budget into an opioid and fentanyl awareness campaign. Brown says this is a big issue in Northern Ontario and people need to learn that small amount of these drugs can kill people.

Brown says he doesn’t think this is a big request. He adds the real purpose of government advertising is for the public good.

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