North Shore businesses overwhelmingly oppose safe injection site
KAMLOOPS — In a survey conducted by the North Shore Business Improvement Association, 77 per cent of businesses are saying they don’t want a safe injection site in their neighbourhood.
The North Shore BIA conducted the survery last month, with 224 businesses responding to the question: “Would you support or approve of a supervised injection site being located within the North Shore Business Area; particularly in the Tranquille Market Corridor?”
“We reached out to as many businesses as we were able to over the course of August once we saw the media reports saying this was being considered for Kamloops,” says NSBIA Executive Director Steven Puhallo, “Our business community is very concerned and worried about having a site like this on the North Shore, particularly in the Tranquille Market area.”