Christy Clark rejected calls from municipal politicians today to reopen Riverview, the Coquitlam mental hospital that closed last year, as a modern mental health centre.
“We’re not considering that,” Clark said at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention after delegates passed a motion asking her government to do just that. “The folks that we are all so concerned about who are living homeless in British Columbia are not from Riverview. It’s a new set of problems we need to deal with.”
Joining Jill Krop on Unfiltered tonight to discuss the issue were Bob Masse, the Maple Ridge Councillor who introduced the motion, and Coast Mental Health Executive Director Darrell Burnham.
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