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Proposed Toronto Homeless Shelter

A statement raised in Members’ Statements about a proposed Toronto homeless shelter at Keele and Wilson that would include supervised drug use, located near a daycare and a middle school. The Conservative member said a nearby existing shelter had brought drugs and crime, and called on the Ontario government and the premier to intervene and block the project.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .

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Roman Baber

Conservative

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“Toronto is planning a shelter at Keele and Wilson that will allow drug injection between a daycare and a middle school. Another shelter nearby already brought drugs and crime to the area. I want the Ontario government and the premier to step in and block this shelter.”
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Mr. Speaker, Toronto is building a shelter that will act as an injection site at Keele and Wilson. It will be located between the St. Theresa’s Day Care Centre and the Pierre Laporte Middle School. The shelter will hand out needles and have a safe room where anyone can inject. We already have the Toronto plaza shelter one intersection west. It turned Jane and Wilson into a hub for drugs, crime and chaos. Now Toronto wants to turn Keele and Wilson into Jane and Wilson, but we do not want a drug den between our two schools. It is a good thing the Province of Ontario can end this madness with an order or a slight expansion of the Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act. It prohibits consumption sites within 200 metres of schools. The premier already blocked construction of a similar shelter in St. Catharines, and the site did not even have any schools nearby. Today, I call on MPP Kerzner and Premier Doug Ford to stand up for Downsview. I ask them to save our children from the needles on their school playgrounds, and block the construction of the shelter at 1220 Wilson Avenue.

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