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A Lowertown park shouldn’t be the site of a pop-up supervised injection tent, Mayor Jim Watson said Tuesday, but it’s not clear if the city is willing to pull up its stakes if the organizers don’t move the health service to the only licensed facility.
“My hope is they’ll be reasonable, work in a collaborative fashion with the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre that has the legal authority to operate the secure injection site,” Watson said in the heart of the ByWard Market, about five blocks from the injection tent at Raphael Brunet Park.
Overdose Prevention Ottawa set up the injection tent in the city park last Friday. The group says there’s an immediate need for this kind of facility, even though the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre has a federal exemption to operate a supervised injection site and is working to get the service up and running.
Dozens of people have so far used the tent to inject their drugs.
65 people in 4 days @odpreventionott. Our service is needed. It is well located. If this pace continues, we will exceed 100 visits in 1 wk.
— Marilou Gagnon RNPhD (@mlgagnon_XVII) August 29, 2017
The Sandy Hill health centre has reached out to Overdose Prevention Ottawa to offer its Nelson Street facility for supervised injections. There’s no word yet if the group will accept the offer.
Watson hopes the injection service will soon move to the Sandy Hill health centre. He wouldn’t say if the city would kick out Overdose Prevention Ottawa from the park.
“We’re going to work for an amicable solution, that’s the first priority,” Watson said. “The reality is, I think it does not do a lot of good to the movement when you have a group that has a legitimate right to a federal licence and then a group that just comes up and says, ‘Well, we’re going to operate a pop-up site.’ I think it should go to the site that has the federal authority to help these people in our community.”
Watson said it’s not fair to the neighbourhood to have its community park “taken over.”
While Overdose Prevention Ottawa is “well-meaning” with a noble purpose, Watson said “everyone in the country has to follow the rule of law.”
“My hope is they work collaboratively and not be situated in a park which is used by kids and is right next door to a community centre that has summer camp programs,” Watson said.
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“My hope is they’ll be reasonable, work in a collaborative fashion with the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre that has the legal authority to operate the secure injection site,” Watson said in the heart of the ByWard Market, about five blocks from the injection tent at Raphael Brunet Park.
Overdose Prevention Ottawa set up the injection tent in the city park last Friday. The group says there’s an immediate need for this kind of facility, even though the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre has a federal exemption to operate a supervised injection site and is working to get the service up and running.
Dozens of people have so far used the tent to inject their drugs.
65 people in 4 days @odpreventionott. Our service is needed. It is well located. If this pace continues, we will exceed 100 visits in 1 wk.
— Marilou Gagnon RNPhD (@mlgagnon_XVII) August 29, 2017
The Sandy Hill health centre has reached out to Overdose Prevention Ottawa to offer its Nelson Street facility for supervised injections. There’s no word yet if the group will accept the offer.
Watson hopes the injection service will soon move to the Sandy Hill health centre. He wouldn’t say if the city would kick out Overdose Prevention Ottawa from the park.
“We’re going to work for an amicable solution, that’s the first priority,” Watson said. “The reality is, I think it does not do a lot of good to the movement when you have a group that has a legitimate right to a federal licence and then a group that just comes up and says, ‘Well, we’re going to operate a pop-up site.’ I think it should go to the site that has the federal authority to help these people in our community.”
Watson said it’s not fair to the neighbourhood to have its community park “taken over.”
While Overdose Prevention Ottawa is “well-meaning” with a noble purpose, Watson said “everyone in the country has to follow the rule of law.”
“My hope is they work collaboratively and not be situated in a park which is used by kids and is right next door to a community centre that has summer camp programs,” Watson said.
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