Police investigating whether officer leaked provincial document that showed B.C. is downplaying safer-supply risks

British Columbia’s director of police services is investigating whether a law enforcement officer was responsible for leaking government presentation slides that revealed a “significant” portion of safer-supply opioids is being diverted and trafficked, a disclosure that prompted swift policy change. The documents were obtained by opposition B.C. Conservative MLA Elenore Sturko, who provided them to journalists and introduced them in the legislature in February. The revelation undermined the government‘s longstanding public assurances that diversion of opioids that are part of the province’s prescribed alternatives program was not widespread.