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It was moved and seconded that Council request that:

• the Government of Canada engage in an immediate process of justice reform to create a comprehensive alternate system like the Portugal model where people with addiction and mental health challenges who break laws are steered through a court system with fully funded and functional treatment facilities, rehabilitation, and community service programs;

• the Provincial Government immediately fund the detox and treatment beds needed to assist people with addiction and mental health challenges; and

• the Federal and Provincial Governments provide the investments needed to address the homelessness crisis, which in turn has been feeding the mental health and addiction crisis.

Votes cast ‘In Favour’ are labeled as 'Climate-Positive' for the climate.