Fredericton North Candidate Brian Duplessis is asked about refusing alcohol and Drug addicts at the Shelter!!!
He was asked about being denied inside the shelter.....we need wet a shelter for the homeless during the cold winter months...the City of Fredericton don't care of the less fortunate.....
So, basically they said there is no plan or shelter for addicts and alcoholics, they go sleep under the bridge. Then, because they have no address, they don't even get welfare cheques and when tourist season arrives they are ticketed and sent to jail because they cannot pay the fines to the City of Fredericton. I think the City is clearly using a lot of tax payers dollars to avoid dealing with the truly needy and underprivileged, while collecting their big fat salaries and pensions. I guess that makes Woodside a modern day Scrooge. He should be ashamed of himself.
There are many reasons for not allowing addicts into shelter. The first is safety for everyone, but more importantly, most of the people in the shelter are on a very fragile recovery plan. The basic philosophy is that if you want to use, that is up to you, but if you want to stop we will help. I hope this society never takes the approach that we will enable people to use drugs and alcohol. We will never have enough money to keep people on drugs and give them no incentive to change. Anyone with any sense would realize that.
The shelter is very generous about slips, etc and is always willing to give second chances. Try working there for a few days and anyone would understand the issues, rather than take this high and mighty approach to something they don't rally know about.
So, basically they said there is no plan or shelter for addicts and alcoholics, they go sleep under the bridge. Then, because they have no address, they don't even get welfare cheques and when tourist season arrives they are ticketed and sent to jail because they cannot pay the fines to the City of Fredericton. I think the City is clearly using a lot of tax payers dollars to avoid dealing with the truly needy and underprivileged, while collecting their big fat salaries and pensions. I guess that makes Woodside a modern day Scrooge. He should be ashamed of himself.
ReplyDeleteThere are many reasons for not allowing addicts into shelter. The first is safety for everyone, but more importantly, most of the people in the shelter are on a very fragile recovery plan. The basic philosophy is that if you want to use, that is up to you, but if you want to stop we will help. I hope this society never takes the approach that we will enable people to use drugs and alcohol. We will never have enough money to keep people on drugs and give them no incentive to change. Anyone with any sense would realize that.
ReplyDeleteThe shelter is very generous about slips, etc and is always willing to give second chances. Try working there for a few days and anyone would understand the issues, rather than take this high and mighty approach to something they don't rally know about.