Canada Global(Web News)Calgary City Council has voted not to ask the province to decide on a supervised drug consumption site at the Sheldon M. Chumer Health Centre.
Council voted 9-5 to defeat the motion with Mayor Jyoti Gondek voting not to write a letter to the Alberta government in support of closing the site.
It is not our jurisdiction,” Gondek said. “We were forced to do something and I hope it will not happen again.
Just because a minister asks us to take a decision that is not ours to take, that doesn’t mean we need to bring a notice of motion to do it.An
original motion put forward by Coun. McLean was replaced by another asking the mayor to write a letter in which The province will be asked to make a decision about the site.
McLean’s motion would have asked the Alberta government to close the site, claiming it was a crime and
nuisance It also cited the province’s move toward the Alberta Recovery Model, which takes a so-called recovery-oriented approach.
SafeWorks’ supervised consumption site provides a place to use drugs
A Maro public opinion poll conducted last month shows Calgarians are roughly divided when it comes to the site’s potential closure . . 52 percent of respondents said they wanted to see the site shut down, while 48 percent said they wanted to keep it open.
Residents opposed to the site’s closure gathered Tuesday morning for a rally to protest its possible closure.
