A conservative government would prohibit any new supervised consumption site of the opening, while making it difficult for existing sites to operate, such as the leader Pierre Poilievre provided in more detail on Sunday his approach, if chosen, to a form of damage reduction that he has repeatedly condemned.
Pailievre was in New Westminster, BC, to announce that his government would respond with $ 1 billion to develop new recovery options, such as detoxification facilities, treatment centers and sweat accommodations. He suggested that 50,000 people would be helped through the plan.
He said that Canada needs a different recovery approach to the use of supervised consumption sites, which has denounced as “drug lair” responsible for the current addiction crisis.
His government would prohibit supervised consumption sites from being located within 500 meters of schools, nurseries, playgrounds, parks or older adult houses, he promised.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, speaking in New Westminster, BC, on Sunday, announced that a conservative government would prohibit supervised consumption sites 500 meters from schools, hospitals, nurseries and children’s parks.
Pailievre also said that it would suspend the approval of new supervised consumption sites until “clear evidence demonstrates that they support recovery,” according to a statement from the party. However, it is not clear to what evidence the part would trust, since Pailievre does not agree with the defenders of the reduction of damages that say there is evidence that these facilities have saved lives.
The conservatives also end the temporary exemption to the Law of Drugs and Controlled Substances that authorized the supervised consumption sites to open without requiring the approval of the provincial government.
Some facilities will remain open
However, Pailievre did not stop to say that all facilities would close. Last summer, Pailievre promised to eliminate all federal funds for prescribed alternative drug programs and divert that money in drug treatment.
On Sunday, he said that existing sites that are not close to schools, parks and other places of community collection can continue to operate, provided they follow new supervision rules.
They would be required to review the health cards of all users and have a licensed medical staff at the site at all times. The facilities must focus on connecting users with treatment and support of nearby companies and lifeguards. They would also have to adhere to cleaning standards and guarantee the elimination of needles in the surrounding areas.
Each installation would be subject to an annual review. Any center that does not meet these standards would have 30 days to meet or close.
Meanwhile, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh was in Halifax to announce that a government under his leadership would only provide federal money for the construction of homes to cities and cities that have strict rental controls, leader Jagmeet Singh promised Sunday.
He said he has no qualms about income control, a matter of provincial jurisdiction, because housing shortages is a “national crisis.”
“I could look for excuses all day,” said Singh from a city where the average income of the oldest apartments increased by more than 40 percent in the last four years.
“I think a leader is not one who seeks excuses, it is someone who seeks solutions … we can find ways to protect people at the federal level.”
According to the NDP plan for national rental control, he said that access to federal housing financing would be linked to rental controls and the prohibition of certain practices that Céspedes of their homes, such as fixed -term leases, renovations and demovations.
These new conditions would be an extension of the limits already in force with the Housing Accelerator Fund of the Liberal Government, which provides money to local governments that rationalize the planning and development approvals of the land use to build more homes.
The leader of the NDP, Jagmeet Singh, speaking in Halifax on Sunday, announced that he would link federal funds to build homes to provincial regulations that protect the tenants.
The NDP plans to maintain that fund, while the conservatives promised to reduce it to partially finance their promise to eliminate the GST from the sales of new houses that cost less than $ 1.3 million.
Singh said that rental controls will ensure that Ottawa is not helping to build houses that only address the lack of short -term affordable options.
“Why would we invest in the construction of houses that are affordable if then, in a couple of years, those houses are no longer affordable? That would be a bad investment,” he said.
Some examples of rental control by the provinces could include new rules on increasing income, the prohibition of input line rental and changes in the new exemptions of the unit, said the party in a press release.
Singh also promised to bring rental controls to homes regulated by the federal government, such as military housing and homes in federal property, and prohibit the setting of income prices.
The candidate of her party in Halifax Riding is Lisa Roberts, a former MLA of Nueva Scotia who served as a critics of provincial housing of the PND.
After it became a MLA in 2016, Roberts for the first time to see a person sleeping in a tent in the constituency. Rental controls will help avoid those results, he said.
“It has been really quite dramatic in the last eight years how the lack of visible and persistent housing has become,” he said.
Liberals do not have a scheduled policy announcement on Sunday.
