The Grande Prairie Mobile Supervised Consumption Site during the official unveiling back in March 2019

By Emily Keller

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Supervised consumption sites may need to close or relocate, says Kenney

Jan 21, 2020 | 4:23 PM

Premier Jason Kenney says a look at a preliminary report on the effects supervised consumption sites have on communities and businesses shows an increase in property damage and crime.

Speaking to reporters in Calgary on Tuesday, Kenney says the results in the report reinforce the governments concerns.

“I think we see, pretty much everywhere, a marked increase in crime in the area of those sites,” said Kenney. “and a social disorder, and negative human consequences in many ways.”

A panel was appointed last summer by the UCP government to examine the socio-economic impacts of the sites.

Grande Prairie currently has one supervised consumption site that is mobile but is stationed at the Rotary House. A town hall on the sites went this past September in the city.

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Kenney says the future of supervised consumption sites in the province remains to be seen.

“It certainly is possible that some will be relocated. It’s never been our intention to shut all of the sites, but we’re taking a very close look based on the data.”

He says he hopes the final report will be released in the next few weeks.

(With files from the Canadian Press.)