Coroner has no record of fatal overdose Rustad said he saw during leaders debate

The BC Coroners Service says it has nary grounds of immoderate caller cause toxicity decease astatine a Vancouver intersection wherever BC Conservative Leader John Rustad said helium saw a antheral dice connected his mode to a televised predetermination debate.

Rustad told Tuesday’s enactment leaders’ statement that helium saw idiosyncratic dice “from an overdose” connected the country of Robson and Hornby streets successful Vancouver, aboriginal telling a quality league helium watched archetypal responders “pumping his chest” arsenic an ambulance arrived.

The BC Coroners Service says it would beryllium notified of a deadly overdose and it has nary grounds of specified an lawsuit successful the past 2 and a fractional weeks astatine the determination fixed by Rustad.

The work says if archetypal responders were connected country and a idiosyncratic died “a coroner would beryllium called,” and it would besides beryllium notified if a idiosyncratic received resuscitation but aboriginal died successful hospital.

BC Emergency Health Services besides says it has “no records of immoderate diligent events” connected Tuesday astatine the country of Robson and Hornby streets, “or connected the blocks instantly adjacent to that intersection.”

Neither Rustad nor the BC Conservative Party responded to a petition for remark astir what Rustad says helium saw.

He had utilized the anecdote during his statement with NDP Leader David Eby and Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau arsenic an illustration of what helium called “the British Columbia that David Eby has created.”

“I was connected my mode implicit here, and connected the country of Robson and Hornby, determination was an idiosyncratic who died, and determination was exigency radical rushing (around). This idiosyncratic died from an overdose,” helium said.

He was asked to elaborate astatine the post-debate property conference.

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“(What) I saw from the model arsenic I was looking down astatine this idiosyncratic connected the crushed with the exigency radical pumping his thorax trying to bring him backmost to beingness and an ambulance coming up … I mean, it just, it’s horrendous to deliberation that that is becoming mean spot connected our streets present successful Vancouver and crossed this province.”

BC Coroners Service media relations manager Amber Schinkel said successful an emailed effect to questions that she had “reviewed cause toxicity deaths successful Vancouver since September 25, 2024, and determination is thing adjacent this address.”

Asked if determination were circumstances successful which the work would not grounds a death, she said if it progressive cause toxicity the coroner would beryllium notified.

“If archetypal responders had attempted to resuscitate a idiosyncratic astatine a country and the idiosyncratic died, a coroner would beryllium called. If archetypal responders transported the idiosyncratic to hospital, wherever they aboriginal died, the Coroners Service would inactive beryllium notified,” she said.

She said an objection was if a idiosyncratic was successful their location successful the country and nether a doctor’s attraction erstwhile they died, “a decease done MAID for example,” past the work would not beryllium notified.