'It's a drug house': Kamloops Mayor slams B.C.'s 'safe' injection sites after business ransacked
Following four recent overdose deaths and over 90 police reports near his lot, Mayor Hamer-Jackson showed Rebel News his auto service business, which was destroyed next to an unsafe injection site.
While B.C.’s Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender dismisses concerns voiced by critics of the province’s failed “safer drug” policies as colonial racism that’s “stigmatizing drug users,” Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson says the reality on Victoria Drive West tells a very different story.
In today’s report, I walk through the wreckage of Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson’s once-thriving auto business, Tru Market, now repeatedly ransacked since a safe-injection site and other low-barrier addiction facilities were placed in the area.
SHOCKING: While B.C. Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender says to stop “stigmatizing” drug use & refocus on “safer supply,” this is 1 room inside the Kamloops Mayor’s once-thriving truck and auto business, hit by break-ins & squatting 3 times since a “safe injection” site &… pic.twitter.com/YO0N6BUT18
— Drea Humphrey (@DreaHumphrey) November 14, 2025
According to the mayor, the BC Housing building across from his business was originally pitched to the community as a shelter for abused women and children, a proposal he and residents supported. But over the years, more facilities were quietly added, including what he describes as a “safe injection” site.
The results, he says, have been devastating.
"We just had four deaths here in the last little while and we’ve gotta get a handle on it,” said Mayor Hamer-Jackson.
The mayor believes these sites are chronically understaffed, leaving people struggling with mental health and addiction issues completely underserved and leaving surrounding businesses in chaos.
“To me it’s a drug house. It’s had nothing but crime,” he told Rebel News.
In 2020 alone, Jackson filed over 90 police reports.
Since then, his previously successful TRU Market Auto business has endured arson attempts, repeated break-ins, vandalism, theft, squatters, power lines cut, and plumbing ripped out, leaving a putrid stench.
Yesterday, Surrey citizens said NO to a BC Housing low barrier complex plan.. aka a tax-paid for “safer” drug house.
— Drea Humphrey (@DreaHumphrey) November 18, 2025
The city listened. Council voted NO!https://t.co/RQ9VfrOWgo pic.twitter.com/q9bPEcCEiL
The mayor says this isn’t just about his shop, as dozens of businesses across Kamloops are suffering the same fate, all while the province insists these sites are “safe” for the community.
“They need to do an audit. All I’m asking is for them to do what they said they were going to do,” he said.
What he wants is simple: recovery-focused housing, real wrap-around services, and a provincial government willing to admit that its “safer supply” and injection-site agenda is a dangerous misnomer, one that’s leaving neighbourhoods gutted and people dead.
Drea Humphrey
B.C. Bureau Chief
Based in British Columbia, Drea Humphrey reports on Western Canada for Rebel News. Drea’s reporting is not afraid to challenge political correctness, or ask the tough questions that mainstream media tends to avoid.
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Don Hrehirchek commented 2025-11-21 14:07:42 -0500I do not know the answer to todays problems , well maybe I do. But that is personnel. Society has to change their mindset and look at what has worked in the past . It certainly is not dei, wef, un crap. Leave government out of the economy and let freedom and liberty reign. But that would actually mean a lot of people would have to think for themselves. Not their selfish ways as is now . Me, Me does not work anymore. -
Bruce Atchison commented 2025-11-20 23:04:07 -0500Let’s hope more politicians abandoned the drug-pushing federal government. Where’s NIMBYism when you need it? And it’s too bad this man had to lose his business. Seems like people have to get mugged by reality before they wise up.
