Quebec wants to prohibit the establishment of supervised injection sites of hard drugs within 150 meters from schools and daycares.
Posted at 2:20 p.m.
The Minister of Social Services, Lionel Carmant, tabled a bill in this sense on Tuesday, in response to the controversy surrounding the house-labre.
Photo Edouard Plante-Fréchette, the press archives
Lionel Carmant
The opening by the establishment, last spring, of a day center for itinerant people and a supervised place of consumption near the Victor-Rousselot school, in the Southwest, in Montreal, had created significant friction in the neighborhood.
-Taking the Minister, the Liberal MP Marwah Rizqy had shortly tabled her own bill last November which provided for the ban on such services within 150 meters from schools and daycares in Montreal and 250 meters in the rest of Quebec.
“We are going to study what she presented to us, but we want something a little wider,” said Minister Lionel Carmant.
The press had shown that the establishment of a 250-meter exclusion radius would create a real headache for the authorities in Montreal due to the presence of many schools and daycares in the territory of the city. Minister Carmant had requested legal opinion to analyze this issue.(Re) read “Where to install the shelters for homeless?” »»
Quebec would not be the first to limit the territory where supervised injection sites can be opened while Ontario has recently decided to ban them from less than 200 meters from schools and daycares.
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