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Originally Posted by sailor734
Not much use building a skyline if the streets below are uninhabitable. Development requires a certain set of conditions to flourish and homelessness/open drug abuse/shantytowns aren't among them.
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Have you done much travelling outside of NB? I think I remember you saying you’ve visited BC at least…
Saint John’s open drug use and homelessness problems are nothing compared to what’s goes on in downtown Vancouver, Toronto, New York, San Francisco etc.
How about building homeless shelters? Or affordable rental housing? Holt and Coon at least support solutions to build shelters and affordable rental housing, while Higgs is largely opposed to financing such solutions. Cracking down on crime and promising forced rehab isn’t enough to deal with the homelessness, open drug use, and crime epidemic. We need to support far more comprehensive solutions than that, and Higgs just ain’t the premier to support the ambitious solutions needed to address these problems from the ground up. Higgs is a frugal penny pincher to put it lightly, and a cheap c**t to put it bluntly.
Again, he’s been in power for 6 years, and our healthcare system is critically underfunded… why should we believe anything he promises regarding forced rehab or getting tougher on the open drug use that is plaguing our city centres?
I don’t think his promises are worth much on these issues, yet this thread is getting clogged up by this open drug use/ forced rehab campaign promise from Higgs.
There’s so many more important election issues than what to do about hard drug users in Uptown Saint John and other NB cities. I’d rather not let Higgs and Steve Outhouse dictate the narrative on this forum regarding the upcoming election… surely, there’s more pertinent topics to the subject of this forum that could more useful to discuss in this thread?
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