Drug enablers and activists hijack community meeting on safety of injection sites
The standing-room-only crowd packed a community centre in Toronto’s Riverdale neighbourhood Wednesday night to discuss safety issues in the wake of a tragic shooting of a mom outside an injection site two weeks ago.
But the meeting was quickly hijacked by the drug enablers and assorted activists, evolving into a nearly two-hour lecture on the benefits of harm reduction and the human rights of addicts.
The legitimate concerns of parents about the prevalence of open illegal drug use and shady characters who hang out outside and in the laneways around the South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC) – located in close proximity to a school – were glossed over as the drug activists and politicians pushed their drug enabling agenda.
The Town Hall was organized following the tragic July 7 shooting of a 44-year-old mother of two, Karolina Huebner-Makurat, while she walked along Queen St. E. in front of the SRCHC.
