So criminalizing poverty and homelessness? How typically conservative. Where the cruelty is the point.
I live in the downtown of a small city with a relatively large homeless population.
Doug ford removed safe injection sites because a school for adults had a built in daycare nearby. I used to never see needles, now they are all over, including outside a for-children school that was outside the exclusion radius of the safe injection site.
Every couple months the police raid and shutdown the tent city (which is on an unused lot next to a train station), and there is always a crime surge as the people there are forced to steal the stuff they need to live again, oh and a bunch more needles. Each one of these raids costs multiple 10’s of thousands of dollars, just so the ground can be empty useless land. Even if you absolutely despise homeless people this is a completely awful idea, it makes literally everyones life harder.
What then? Send them off to El Salvador?
It’s what… Three times as expensive to jail them compared to just giving them a house?
Great way to reduce the government budget there Mr. PP head
But we need to punish them for their crime. It’s just awful that they’re trying to climb to the second rung of Maslows hierarchy of needs.