""I want to help these people, but I'm not going to sit back as you put these injection sites in the middle of communities. There's needles all over the place. It's dangerous for kids and communities. They're in the parks. It's terrible, and we're closing them down.""
""We're not going to reverse, we've been very clear: our focus is on the HART hubs to make sure that people have access to treatment. We want to ensure that there is a pathway out of addictions, and you can't do that when you continue to fund, frankly, illicit drugs.""
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones confirmed the province will proceed with closing more supervised drug consumption sites, rejecting calls from six former Toronto mayors to reverse this decision. The province previously announced the withdrawal of funding for seven sites, following the closure of nine others deemed too close to schools. The government is shifting focus to an abstinence-based model called HART hubs, emphasizing treatment access over funding for supervised consumption sites, despite concerns from health advocates about potential increases in drug-related deaths.
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