Manitoba New Democrats are promising to open a safe consumption site for drugs such as methamphetamines if they win the provincial election.
NDP Leader Wab Kinew says he would also expand addictions treatment programs and establish a meth intervention program in Winnipeg.
Kinew says the measures would cost $3.5 million a year and reduce the number of used needles found around the city.
He also says it would get more people off drugs and reduce rates of crime and disease.
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The NDP say the Progressive Conservative government has failed to act as meth use has grown across Manitoba.
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