A man waits to enter the Safeworks supervised consumption site at the Sheldon M. Chumir Health Centre in Calgary in this August 2021 file photo. The Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions is brushing off comments in legislature made by Minister Rick Wilson last week about witnessing people 'collapse and die' in front of him at a supervised consumption site even though no deaths have ever occurred at a SCS in Canada.--CP FILE PHOTO
Alberta’s Minister of Mental Health and Addictions last week told the legislature he saw people die in Alberta’s supervised consumption sites, even though no deaths have ever been recorded. “Mr. Speaker, I would welcome anybody to come with me to a supervised drug consumption site. I was just there the beginning of the week. I’m still having nightmares about this. We are not helping people there,” said Minister Rick Wilson in the house last Tuesday. “These people that are in there: I’ve actually seen them collapse and die right in front of me.” Zero deaths have ever been recorded at any supervised consumption site across Canada. Supervised consumption sites have been operating across the country since 2003. “There are things that are unparliamentary to say inside the legislature; you can’t say that a person is lying,” said NDP MLA and shadow minister of addiction and mental health Janet Eremenko. But the Minister’s claim, she says, is patently untrue. “Listen, nobody is perfect in the legislature,” she said. “I think when you say something...
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