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The province never called Ottawa City Hall to offer assistance for the unsanctioned Overdose Prevention Ottawa tent in Lowertown, according to Mayor Jim Watson.
“We were never formally asked about it. We didn’t get any call. The first we heard of it was in fact from the media,” Watson said on Monday. “When we contacted local MPPs to find out what was happening, they were trying to get information from the provincial government.”
Last Friday, Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins suggested the city government declined the province’s offer to provide a heated tent for Overdose Prevention Ottawa to use in Raphael Brunet Park.
So far, there’s no clear indication who’s right.
Still, Watson said his priority is to get funding for the “legal, permitted use” supervised injection sites: the Ottawa Public Health site on Clarence Street, the planned site at the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre and the one proposed by the Shepherds of Good Hope and Ottawa Inner City Health.
“I would say put your money in our legitimate sites,” Watson said.
“In fact, I know my office talked to one official from the province government, they weren’t even aware the other site was 90 seconds away, and it is literally 90 seconds away. The reality is, we have a legitimate site that has been given approval by, we hope today, the federal government, the health department. We have the professionalism of Wendy Muckle and her (Ottawa Inner City Health) group. I toured the site on the weekend and I was very impressed with it. My view is that’s where the resources should be, number one, along with the Sandy Hill site and the one we’ve set up on a temporary basis that’s open many more hours than the one in the park.”
Watson said he toured the Shepherds’ proposed supervised injection site on Sunday. It’s located in a trailer in the building’s parking lot.
“I was very impressed with the professionalism and the work that has gone in,” Watson said. “I’m glad the province has delivered the funding to open that particular site. I think that’s a sensible location to have it. It’s going to be warm, it’s going to be protected, staffed by professionals and right beside the Shepherds of Good Hope.”
If approved by Health Canada, it would be the third supervised injection site in Ottawa approved by the feds.
The Sandy Hill Community Health Centre has permission, but doesn’t know when its supervised injection site will be ready at its Nelson Street building.
Ottawa Public Health has been running its temporary supervised injection site at its Clarence Street clinic.
Some councillors were upset that the city made a decision to reject the provincial assistance for the unsanctioned Overdose Prevention Ottawa tent without receiving council’s advice.
“I’m not thinking of a council solution on this,” Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper said on Monday, but he was still trying to determine how the city came to rejecting the province’s offer.
There needs to be more discussion between Overdose Prevention Ottawa and the city, Leiper said.
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“We were never formally asked about it. We didn’t get any call. The first we heard of it was in fact from the media,” Watson said on Monday. “When we contacted local MPPs to find out what was happening, they were trying to get information from the provincial government.”
Last Friday, Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins suggested the city government declined the province’s offer to provide a heated tent for Overdose Prevention Ottawa to use in Raphael Brunet Park.
So far, there’s no clear indication who’s right.
Still, Watson said his priority is to get funding for the “legal, permitted use” supervised injection sites: the Ottawa Public Health site on Clarence Street, the planned site at the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre and the one proposed by the Shepherds of Good Hope and Ottawa Inner City Health.
“I would say put your money in our legitimate sites,” Watson said.
“In fact, I know my office talked to one official from the province government, they weren’t even aware the other site was 90 seconds away, and it is literally 90 seconds away. The reality is, we have a legitimate site that has been given approval by, we hope today, the federal government, the health department. We have the professionalism of Wendy Muckle and her (Ottawa Inner City Health) group. I toured the site on the weekend and I was very impressed with it. My view is that’s where the resources should be, number one, along with the Sandy Hill site and the one we’ve set up on a temporary basis that’s open many more hours than the one in the park.”
Watson said he toured the Shepherds’ proposed supervised injection site on Sunday. It’s located in a trailer in the building’s parking lot.
“I was very impressed with the professionalism and the work that has gone in,” Watson said. “I’m glad the province has delivered the funding to open that particular site. I think that’s a sensible location to have it. It’s going to be warm, it’s going to be protected, staffed by professionals and right beside the Shepherds of Good Hope.”
If approved by Health Canada, it would be the third supervised injection site in Ottawa approved by the feds.
The Sandy Hill Community Health Centre has permission, but doesn’t know when its supervised injection site will be ready at its Nelson Street building.
Ottawa Public Health has been running its temporary supervised injection site at its Clarence Street clinic.
Some councillors were upset that the city made a decision to reject the provincial assistance for the unsanctioned Overdose Prevention Ottawa tent without receiving council’s advice.
“I’m not thinking of a council solution on this,” Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper said on Monday, but he was still trying to determine how the city came to rejecting the province’s offer.
There needs to be more discussion between Overdose Prevention Ottawa and the city, Leiper said.
jwilling@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JoanthanWilling
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