Vancouver’s health authority applies for two more supervised-injection sites
Vancouver’s health authority has applied for two new supervised-injection sites to combat a drug overdose crisis that has taken more than 100 lives in the city this year.
While announcing the applications, both the mayor and chief medical health officer renewed a call for the federal government to repeal “flawed and mean-spirited” legislation that is time consuming and makes it extremely difficult to establish new sites.
Bill C-2, the Respect for Communities Act, was passed by the previous Conservative government and requires cities to meet 26 criteria before applying.
“We have over a dozen people a month dying in Vancouver this year of overdose deaths,” Mayor Gregor Robertson said at a news conference Monday.