Ontario’s Health Ministry confirmed it hired a “third party” to gather information about supervised consumption sites, a move that comes as the province faces a Charter challenge over its planned closure of 10 such locations across the province, including five in Toronto.
“Now that the province is facing litigation aimed at keeping (supervised consumption sites) open next to where children learn and play, we have retained a third party to gather additional evidence about the impact of these sites,” said Ema Popovic, a spokesperson for Health Minister Sylvia Jones, in a statement to the Star.