Overseas drug consumption sites defeat the irritable matter, can remain open now amid the challenge of the charter

A judge in Ontario has given a judicial matter to maintain 10 open supervision consumption sites, while it is considered a challenge to eradication of a new regional law prohibiting the sites from work 200 meters from schools or daytime tools.

Judge John Kalhan of the Supreme Court of Justice said that all the sites scheduled to be closed under the new law by April 1 can remain open even after 30 days of the case decision.

“Constitutional issues in this application are complicated,” Kalhan wrote.

“My decision will require some time. Therefore, I kept a decision on the charter and other constitutional issues and the judgment will be issued in the coming months.”

The neighborhoods group, which runs the site of preventing an overdose of the Kensington Market in downtown Toronto, has filed a lawsuit in December along with two people using the space.

They argued in the court earlier this week that the new law violates both the Charter of Rights, Freedoms and the Constitution, including the right to life, freedom and security of a person.

Defenders warn that people will die if they continue to close

The neighborhood group celebrates the decision that gives its temporary customers.

“Today’s decision means that people will be allowed to survive for a little longer,” said Carlo de Carlo, the lawyer who represented the site and its users in court for two days of arguments earlier this week.

The organization’s CEO said the Kinsington market will remain open. It is not funded locally – it works on donations, and we will now welcome more to continue. The site requires about $ 30,000 per month to stay open.

“In fact, we did not have a closing plan because we were hoping and optimistic that we would remain open on April 1, and now we will do,” said Bill Senkler.

“We are very happy to provide life rescue services after next week.”

Senkler said collectively that the sites reflected thousands of excessive doses in the past five years.

“Thousands of people wander more healthy today because our services were there and we were terrifying that there would be people who would have died because the services were withdrawn.”

Senkler added that the development shows that the issue is taken seriously.

He said, “This irritable matter indicates that the court is concerned with people and that the court is working through the best possible decision,” he said.

Health officials and damage to damage said that the lives of drug users are routinely rescued at the locations, and they warned against people’s death as a result of the closure if they continue.

The boycott argued that the new law does not violate the charter or the constitution and that legislation is necessary to protect the public, especially children, from turmoil and violence near consumption sites.

The judge said that he granted an exemption for all consumption sites subject to supervision so that they can continue to work as usual. He said that the damage of users of the sites that could result from the closure exceeded the damage to the public on a limited time while it was considered his decision.

“Exempting the current sites (consumption sites under supervision) will have a great general benefit, which is to prevent the risks and serious health deaths that exceeded in my opinion the damage caused by the continuous general disorder.”

The province says that the ruling does not change its plans

Last summer, Jones announced a fundamental shift in the boycott approach to the deadly opium crisis and the contract. The new rules, which prevented the operation of sites at a certain distance from schools and day centers, means that 10 out of 23 sites throughout the province should be closed.

As part of the new approach, the province invests $ 529 million, including the construction of 540 housing units.

It funds 18 new treatment centers for homelessness and addiction, or Hart Hubs as the boycott calls, as well as consumption sites subject to the nine supervision that agreed to become Hart centers instead of facing imminent closure.

In a statement on Friday, Hannah Jensen, a spokeswoman for the Minister of Health, Ontario Silvia Jones, said the province’s government brought the law for public safety reasons.

“Our priority is to protect children and families from violent crime and use dangerous drugs that occur in drug injection sites near schools and daytime machines.”

Nine of 10 consumption sites should be transferred to homeless treatment centers and addiction addiction, or Hart Hubs as the boycott calls them. One of the sites, located inside the South Refundele Center for Community Health, was already closed, after closing its doors on March 21.

Jensen said that the ruling does not change the boycott plans.

She said: “The transmission of nine drug injections to displacement, addiction and treatment (Hart) will extend as it is planned on the first of April.”

“The financing of provinces for Hart Hubs cannot be used for drug injection services and will be suspended on the organization that does not seek to continue these services.”

“You will keep them closed by closing them,” said Angela Robertson, Executive Director of the Barclad Queen West Community Center for Health, who runs one of the nine sites, if the sites do not get provinces.

“I feel joy and despair at the same time,” she said, adding that the decision confirms that the dangerous risks and deaths will result from the closure.

She said there is an opportunity to boycott things.

In the middle of (AN) a toxic drug crisis and an unorganized excess dose, we cannot follow a zero approach.

The provincial lawyers said that the sites can move, and the Minister’s approval

During the legal arguments that Kalhan heard on Tuesday, the provincial lawyers argued that the law only organized the site of consumption subject to supervision and that they can simply move.

However, Jones immediately refused the provincial lawyer by saying that the province would not allow the boycott to launch it, and will not allow the current engines to move.

Legislation says that local municipalities and councils cannot apply for a consumption site subject to supervision without the approval of the provincial health minister.