People in Montreal's St-Henri neighbourhood are keeping the pressure on elected officials, to not allow a supervised injection site to open, just metres away from a school.
WATCH: Residents of Montreal’s St-Henri neighbourhood are keeping the pressure on elected officials to not allow a supervised injection site to open next to an elementary school. As Phil Carpenter reports, elected officials point out, however, that there is a homelessness crisis and the shelter and the supervised drug use site helps address that.
“There’s never a good place to put those centres,” Jacqueline Lam, who has kids at the school, noted as she protested outside the site with other parents Sunday. “We want to help everyone – there’s vulnerable populations that need help. But next to a school is the worst place possible that they could have picked.”
The new four-storey complex on Atwater Avenue will have more than 30 apartments for people experiencing homelessness, who have mental health challenges and are struggling with addiction. Supervised drug use will happen on the ground floor. Parents, however, are worried about the clients of the complex coming into contact with students and about kids finding syringes, despite the fact that the city plans to build a higher fence around the school yard.“You’re talking about people who could be aggressive, people that could be dangerous, paranoid,” Lam argued. They don’t know what they are doing necessarily.”“It’s a beautiful place to live,” she stressed.
Elected officials point out, however, that there is a homelessness crisis and that the joint federal, provincial and municipal project is one way to address it.A Canadian-Israeli woman missing since Hamas attack has died, family says“There’s a population that exists in this neighbpurhood, and it’s growing,” city councillor Craig Sauvé told Global News in an interview in September. “What we want to do is take that consumption from outside, bring it inside under supervision.
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