It can take as long as six weeks to receive in-patient addiction treatment in Saskatchewan, according to data obtained from the province’s Ministry of Health.

The data obtained by CBC News through a freedom of information request appears to contradict the claims of Lori Carr, the government’s minister of mental health and addictions.

In public comments and in the provincial legislature, Carr has repeatedly said the government does not have wait-time data.

“The [facilities] track them individually. So it's really hard to kind of reconcile all of that is happening at this point in time,” Carr said on Monday.

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The documents obtained by CBC News provide data on the average wait time for nearly every adult in-patien

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