Darcy Edwards

Let me break down this involuntary treatment... Doug Ford considering involuntary addiction treatment should piss people off. Ontario can't guarantee immediate treatment to people begging for help, but Ford is already willing to entertain taking away the liberty of people who aren't asking for it. Think about how backwards that is. You haven't built enough treatment beds. You haven't solved the housing crisis. You haven't built adequate mental-health and trauma supports. You haven't created a recovery system capable of catching people when they ask for help. But you're ready to discuss forcing them into treatment? Doug Ford doesn't get to neglect the conditions that fuel addiction and homelessness and then present coercion as compassion. Taking away someone's freedom is an enormous exercise of government power. It should never become the shortcut politicians reach for because building housing, treatment capacity and long-term recovery supports is harder. If someone asks for treatment today, there should be a bed, If someone completes treatment, there should be somewhere safe to go afterward. Build that system, Doug. Until then, don't call forcing vulnerable people into treatment a solution to a system your government hasn't fixed. ctvnews.ca/barrie/article/fo…