The Sandy Hill Community Health Centre is planning to consult the public this spring about adding a safe-injection site to its building at Rideau and Nelson streets, says the man who runs the Centre’s drug-treatment programs.
“We’re basically on the same path as Toronto,” Rob Boyd said Monday morning following the news that Toronto’s board of health is going to consider three specific sites – two at community health centres and one run by Toronto’s public-health unit itself.
“We are planning on beginning our own consultations, probably in the month of April,” said Boyd. “(They’ll take place) over about six weeks, to allow as much access as possible.”
Jim Watson has always been against such a site and doesn’t care to discuss it, thank you. “Mayor Watson’s position on supervised injection sites has not changed. Mayor Watson prefers to see a continued focus on investment in treatment programs,” wrote his press secretary Livia Belcea in an email on Monday. “Mayor Watson will be unavailable to comment further in the upcoming days.”