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The provincial government says the ball is in Calgary city council’s court.
Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek says the ball is in the provincial government’s court.
[...] Dan Williams, Smith’s point man on the addictions file, tells us if Calgary city council tells him they want the six-year-old drug site at the Sheldon Chumir Health Centre shut down he will do it. The government will then bring in an alternative, still looking after those overdosing but with more emphasis on getting addicts off drugs for good.
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The mayor says she is not going to go to war with the UCP government of Premier Danielle Smith if the province shuts down the drug site in Calgary. In fact, Gondek says she believes the Chumir drug site is not working. [...] But the mayor is not supporting the idea of Calgary city council asking Smith to close the drug site. Gondek says that’s not the city’s job. If Smith and her people want to close the drug site, close it. They don’t need the city’s thumbs-up.
“If you don’t want it there, then don’t have it there. You’re not going to get a fight from us,” says Gondek, to the Smith government. “They have already said what’s happening at the Sheldon Chumir isn’t working. We should not have a safe consumption site there. OK. Great. We agree with you. What’s the alternative? That’s all I’m waiting to hear.
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/co...gary-drug-site
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JFC, Gondek, will you just be the bigger person already? Do the right thing, and get city council to ask the sh-theads at the Provincial government instead of this f-cking stalemate.
God damn it. I am so sick of the UCP
and Calgary's City Council, bunch of time-wasting morons playing their stupid games.