Reevely: City will fund supervised injection sites if nobody else will, Mayor Jim Watson says
If the provincial government stops funding supervised drug-injection sites in Ottawa and the federal government doesn’t step in, the city will have to find a way to pay for them itself, Mayor Jim Watson said Thursday.
This is a major turnaround for a politician who resisted these services in Ottawa for years.
“I think we have now four in Ottawa and they’re serving a very vulnerable population and we’d have to find, if the province cuts the funding — we’d have
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