B.C. Liberal wants Vancouver addicts sent to island
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The B.C. Liberal party candidate in Vancouver–Mount Pleasant, where Vancouver’s supervised injection site is located, wants drug addicts taken away to an “island”.
There, according to Stephen Chong, addicts could get training so they could later get jobs. “After they have finished their term, they can come out and they have their own skill,” Chong told the Georgia Straight by phone. “That’s what I want.”
The 67-year-old retired businessman and former TransLink bus driver, who was acclaimed as the Liberal candidate on July 3, said that continuing to allow addicts to inject drugs “will kill them in the long run”.
But Chong said that “if you cannot get a place for them [addicts]”, he prefers to see injection sites in each riding, not just in Chinatown. That way, “they have a choice” where to go, he said.
Still, he considers moving Insite away from Chinatown a “good” idea, a measure that he deemed “possible”. He said, “I prefer it further out in the city.”
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