The Prince George city councillor brought a motion forward to kickstart long-overdue meetings with provincial ministries to address the complex knot of social issues affecting the city.
Getting everybody to the table, that’s how. It’s a tiny step, certainly, and another meeting is not what fed-up residents wanting action hoped to see. The path to action, however, requires a plan and that requires meetings. So at what point does government intervene to decide how to care for individuals who are unable to look after their personal health and safety and pose a significant risk to the health and safety of others? Should government leave people suffering on the streets with their individual rights intact or should government supersede those rights and impose treatment on unwilling individuals in the interest of health and...
Send them to the gulag!
It seems as though advocates for the homeless say: we must respect their right to make decisions and we have to excuse them for crimes because their decision making is significantly impaired and we need to spend unlimited amounts to save them from their bad decisions. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯