Residents fears the Manitoba supervised consumption site will bring safety concerns like drugs and more vulnerable people to an already struggling neighbourhood of North Logan.
“The fear is that what we see in the vicinity (Main Street) will come to our community. Will more people move out? Will more business shut down?” said Norman Alegria, who’s been living in the neighbourhood for around 30 years.
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The Manitoba drug consumption site will open Tuesday at 366 Henry.
Global News reached out to Aboriginal Health Wellness Centre, which is operating the site, to ask how it will work when someone attends, and about their neighbours’ concerns, but they said they could not accommodate an interview Monday but would provide more information Tuesday.
In a statement to Global News, the Aboriginal Health and Wellness centre said it will ensure “a culturally safe, hollistic model of care that honours the dignity of our relatives while maintaining accountability to our surrounding neighbours,” and communicate through proactive door-to-door dialogue, committing to transparent communication and respectful relationships moving forward.
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Your request for transparency is honest. It might not be realistic. You’re now over-extending into a individuals personal information.
I find it somewhat ironic that people living near north Logan are worried about the crowd the supervised consumption site will bring to the neighborhood. Apparently none of those people have noticed that crowd was already present in public consuming drugs visibly. It’s literally everywhere today. At least with a supervised site there is a place for them to go to get off the streets where kids can see them clear as day. The drug problem isn’t going to go away by plowing our heads into the sand like the cartoon ostrich and complaining. Those addicts are humans too, not all of which are bad people.