Because the Ford authorities strikes ahead with adjustments to the operation of consumption and therapy websites throughout the province, one area people group continues so as to add their voice in opposition to the plan.
Whereas plans to ban Consumption and Therapy Service (CTS) websites inside 200 metres of faculties and youngster care centres have been mentioned since late August, it was as lately as Monday that the province launched the Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act that might do exactly that, whereas additionally requiring municipalities and native boards to “seek provincial approval before supporting new supervised consumption sites.”
These measures would come with the closure of a lot of CTS websites throughout Ontario, together with one in Guelph and the positioning in Kitchener at 150 Duke Avenue W.
The Waterloo Area Drug Motion Group (WRDAT) had beforehand decried these measures and the closure, as a group group composed to native residents with “interest, experience and expertise in resolving a wide range of drug-related issues.”
In a launch, WRDAT argued the act is “widely expected to make things worse” for group well being and security, as they argue that inner authorities paperwork “have advised that the act ‘does not deal with either concept’.”
“The Waterloo Region Drug Action Team detects no visible support for defunding the one Consumption and Treatment Service in Waterloo Region,” reads an earlier launch.
“Support from two municipal councils, the daycare across the street, faith groups, health and medical providers alongside other organizations and individuals, together with favourable crime data in the CTS neighbourhood contradict the fact-free, opinion based radical drug policy emerging from the Ontario government to date.”
Beforehand outlined plans from the province embody a large funding in 19 new Homeless and Habit Restoration Therapy (HART) hubs, although WRDAT argued that such websites could be “no substitute for the CTS.”
“We encourage local media to reach out to area MPPs, as we are baffled by an Act that threatens the lives of constituents, creates harms for both individuals and neighbourhoods and adds more work – not less – to staff of overburdened health, social, non-profit and first-responder systems.”
WRDAT added that they anticipate a rise in public substance use, needle litter and drug particles and overdoses ought to the Kitchener CTS web site be closed.
NEWS RELEASE prematurely of @ONgov’s “Growing needle litter close to faculties and playgrounds” laws.
Okay, probably not, however why mince phrases because it definitely is not about group care and restoration.
With gratitude to @ColinDMello for the chronically stellar journalism. pic.twitter.com/2byQtlKKkk
— WRDrugAction (@DrugActionWR) November 15, 2024
