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At Manitoba's first supervised consumption site, users will be able to do their laundry, receive primary medical care, seek addictions treatment and mental health counselling.
While it will be a place where people can safely and legally use drugs, the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre promised it will do much more than that, at a news conference to announce the site Friday. It is believed it will be the first Indigenous-led supervised consumption site in Canada.
The centre will be in charge of the service design and delivery, along with a new co-ordinator from Shared Health, to integrate it into the health-care system.
The Manitoba government has marked $727,000 to go toward the site.
Addictions Minister Bernadette Smith said the funding will help pay to operate the site. Details are still being worked out.
One detail yet to be decided is the location of the site. Smith said centre staff are working with a corporate real estate agent to find the right location downtown "west of Main Street," but no decision has been made.
"We want to make sure that we're getting it right," she said, noting it has to be decided how to consult with neighbours of the site once a location is chosen.
There are 39 supervised consumption sites in Canada, but the closest thing Manitoba currently has is the mobile overdose prevention site run out of an RV fitted with a drug testing machine, which is operated by Sunshine House.
Health Canada says more than 40,000 people have died from using toxic drugs since 2016, when the agency began tracking these figures.
A 2011 Supreme Court ruling said closing the Vancouver operation would deprive users of their Charter rights.
Poilievre said that landmark decision does not mean supervised drug sites can operate anywhere without any restrictions.
During a visit to a park near such a site in Montreal, Poilievre said he would shutter all locations near schools, playgrounds and "anywhere else that they endanger the public."
"Radical bureaucrats don't have the right to open these drug dens anywhere they want," he said.
He said he believes "reasonable restrictions" can be put in place to prevent them from opening "in locations that endanger the community, or where there is community opposition."
Poilievre suggested the federal government has the power to close existing sites under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, under which it grants them an exemption to operate.
Poilievre's office did not divulge specifics when asked how he would go about shuttering sites. In Montreal Friday, federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre promised to pull funding to some supervised consumption sites if he's elected prime minister, as he referred to them as "drug dens."
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