Midland is good-sized city on the sting of Simcoe County.
Nevertheless, it’s not a metropolis, which cuts it off from becoming a member of space huge metropolis mayors who’re pleading with the provincial authorities to present them an help in relation to homeless individuals’s encampments.
That hasn’t stopped Midland’s Mayor Invoice Gordon from leaping ft first into the fray to ask the province – as soon as council approves his letter – for path when coping with a burgeoning homeless inhabitants.
In his November 5 letter, Gordon asks the federal government to present municipalities a bit leverage, through the use of the However Clause if crucial. He desires the province to:
Grow to be an intervener in any court docket case limiting a municipality’s potential to ban encampments,
Develop community-based and residential psychological well being care and providers for individuals with addictions
Permit a system that may concentrate on rehabilitation fairly than incarceration
Give the Trespass to Property Act a bit enamel, so officers can cost individuals for a number of infringements of trespassing
In keeping with Gordon, “Midland’s homelessness is third-highest in the county, second only to Orillia and Barrie, both of whom are ‘separated cities’ within the county structure.”
Just like the 14 smaller municipalities in Simcoe County, as soon as he will get council approval, Gordon desires to be part of the massive cities’ ask of Queen’s Park to humanely get the homelessness disaster underneath management.
