The answer is yes. The bottom line is we are working already with the City of Yellowknife, the Department of Justice, the NWT Housing Corporation, the RCMP, to come up with some ways to address some of the issues that we're experiencing in our downtown core and the demands those are putting both on our ambulance services here in Yellowknife but also on our emergency room. A couple of things we're looking at is expanding our hours of service for our day shelters. We're looking at moving our day shelter to a more appropriate location. We're also looking at a sobering centre here in Yellowknife. Many people have been talking about a managed alcohol program. We feel that a managed alcohol program would be a nice fit within a sobering centre. Our first goal is to get a sobering centre in place, do the research on managed alcohol programs, and see if it will be a fit in the future. It is absolutely something we're open to, but we need to get the other work done, the sobering centre, the change in hours and the ride-along programs that the city is looking at implementing. There's a lot of work being done in this area, Mr. Speaker.
Glen Abernethy on Question 312-18(2): Managed Alcohol Programs
In the Legislative Assembly on October 13th, 2016. See this statement in context.
Question 312-18(2): Managed Alcohol Programs
Oral Questions
October 12th, 2016
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