Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is trying to put a positive spin on the humiliation his NDP government has suffered in their failed roll-out of a safe consumption site. What else can he do? This appears to be the first time in Canada a site proposal was terminated after public demands for transparency and answers.

But no one should be fooled by his assertion the decision to end the plan for an SCS at 200 Disraeli Fwy. was the result of “a good faith consultation with the community.”

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The consultations that were finally held were only after a residents’ revolt, and there was no good faith on the part of his government or the proponents at any step in the approval process required by Health Canada.

The NDP and the applicant, the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre, were kn

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