Following the Jan. 27 incidents, B.C. Conservative MLA Elenore Sturko is making calls to change how the provincial government approaches mental health.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.There are renewed calls for the province improve roadways and boost supports for people suffering with mental health issues after a man shut down the W.R. Bennet Bridge for more than 10 hours earlier this week. Sydney Morton has more.
“It’s clear that the services that are available in the province currently are insufficient,” said Sturko. “The reality is that police are responding to something way down the stream, we need to look at the previous year, or even years leading up to a serious crisis or a big public safety incident and look at what the failures in the system of mental health and health care were,” said Sturko.Kelowna RCMP say that the driver of the ice cream truck that blocked WR Bennet Bridge Monday for more than 10 hours was an individual in crisis and has not yet been charged.
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