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Safe supply of actual substances out in public and providing only paraphernalia in a controlled prison setting are two completely different things you absolute muppet.
You say it’s hard evidence yet you provide no actual numbers or statistics, probably because you’re not educated enough to know how to interpret them.
You types love to claim that facts don’t care about feelings but that goes out the window almost instantly whenever it’s your own feelings.
Pick up a book and read sometime, I promise it’s good for you
Nah it’s definitely people like you who are so shortsighted you couldn’t find your way out of a wet paper bag.
Are you so dense that you really think you’re somehow going to stop people from smuggling drugs into prison when it is something that has existed as long as prisons and drugs have?
You say that they shouldn’t have access to these drugs in the first place but offer no actual effective solutions at preventing it, probably because you’re incapable of thinking of one. I suppose it is easier to whine about how you wish your problems didn’t exist in the first place but meanwhile in the real-world, your Nixon-ass finger wagging approach has achieved less than nothing.
Again because people seem to not realize:
Even if you have no humanitarian concerns (which is pretty cruel but whatever I’m clearly not going to change any minds about that), the health problems caused by reusing straws, needles, etc. cost the government and therefore the taxpayer a vast amount more than it costs to supply clean paraphernalia; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and all that.
If you truly care about fiscal considerations, you should support this initiative.
I am not wrong and actually have a degree in this topic so let’s break it down:
On your first point, solar panel manufacturing requires very toxic aqueous heavy-metal solutions as well as silicon dust which is extremely hazardous to workers in the form of possible silicosis.
On your second point, while Canada has lithium and phosphate deposits, Canada is only the 8th largest lithium miner and our production is less than half of the seventh place producer (Brazil), and much of our phosphate is imported from the US (obviously not forced labour but still not great given geopolitical circumstances). Just because we could theoretically mine enough of these minerals ourselves doesn’t mean that we actually do, and the lead time for a full-scale mining operation is basically the same as a NPP when you consider environmental assessments.
Also LFP batteries chemically degrade over time and eventually need to be replaced so your claim that we would mine them once and never again just doesn’t make sense.
Mathematically, assuming we were building a domestic latest-gen reactor (CANDU6) with an approximate 0.6-0.8MW power output.
According to the US EIA, US nuclear power plants had a capacity factor of around 90% which means that an NPP could produce around 5.24TWh of electricity per year (665MW x 8760hours x 0.90 capacity factor).
By contrast, the average solar farm has only around a 25% capacity factor, so if we wanted an equivalent power output we would need around 2.4GW of solar power output instead of only 655MW from our reactor (5.24TWh/year divided by 8760hrs x 0.25 capacity).
So already we know that just over half a GW of nuclear power is worth around 2 and a half GW of solar power.
According to Bloomberg, 307GWh of solar batteries were installed globally in the entirety of 2025 so the entire global supply of battery power added last year would only be enough to cover around 19 days worth of power output from ONE SINGLE REACTOR.
I would encourage you to learn more about these topics before coming from a place of arrogance.
Let’s break it down:
Solar panel manufacturing requires very toxic aqueous heavy-metal solutions as well as silicon dust which is extremely hazardous to workers in the form of possible silicosis.
While Canada has lithium and phosphate deposits, Canada is only the 8th largest lithium miner and our production is less than half of the seventh place producer (Brazil), and much of our phosphate is imported from the US (obviously not forced labour but still not great given geopolitical circumstances). Just because we could theoretically mine enough of these minerals ourselves doesn’t mean that we actually do, and the lead time for a full-scale mining operation is basically the same as a NPP when you consider environmental assessments.
Also LFP batteries chemically degrade over time and eventually need to be replaced.
Mathematically, assuming we were building a domestic latest-gen reactor (CANDU6) with an approximate 0.6-0.8MW power output.
According to the US EIA, US nuclear power plants had a capacity factor of around 90% which means that an NPP could produce around 5.24TWh of electricity per year (665MW x 8760hours x 0.90 capacity factor).
By contrast, the average solar farm has only around a 25% capacity factor, so if we wanted an equivalent power output we would need around 2.4GW of solar power output instead of only 655MW from our reactor (5.24TWh/year divided by 8760hrs x 0.25 capacity).
So already we know that just over half a GW of nuclear power is worth around 2 and a half GW of solar power.
According to Bloomberg, 307GWh of solar batteries were installed globally in the entirety of 2025 so the entire global supply of battery power added last year would only be enough to cover around 19 days worth of power output from ONE SINGLE REACTOR.