To the Editor,
I am so tired of seeing news clips, newspaper articles and listening to people about the solutions for drug problems and homelessness in our communities. True, these people need help, but we are just aiding them by fighting for more and more safe injection sites. Our communities are going to hell with drug addiction and tent cities. When I look at this I see tent cities that are filthy, I see drug-addicted citizens that are being encouraged to continue their drug addiction.
I realize there isn’t an easy solution. No one wants it in their backyard, but our streets are not going to be made safe if we continue to allow all of this to happen. What is it going to take before our leaders put their heads together with citizens of the community and come up with a solution rather than Band-Aid it? These people have to be taken off our streets and helped in safe houses, where they are fed and detoxed rather than be allowed to ruin our communities. What does it take – some innocent child to find a syringe and be the one to wake us all up?
People are opening their hearts up to the refugees, the government is providing for them, what about our own backyard? We need to come together as a community to clean it up.
MaryLou SharpeNanaimo
