Faith leaders urge Ford to reverse move to shutter supervised consumption sites | CBC News
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"I'm hoping that, perhaps, if facts and figures and science and data have all failed, perhaps we have a chance to reach his humanity, perhaps we have an opportunity to try once again to convince him that we are talking about human beings who will die," said Rev. Maggie Helwig of the Church of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields.
"We believe that those who are visiting the sites are the folks who have the least resources, the highest need and the least access to privacy and care," said Bishop Andrew Asbil of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto. "We believe that the sites are in the right place, which means that they are often in places of deprivation and desolation and sometimes that also includes high crime rates."
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