Canada

Instead of spending so much energy trying to 'get rid of' or remove the sight of poor people or the homeless ... which is what these regulations are trying to do.

Why not spend more energy trying to make a more equitable society so that you don't have as many poor people around.

It's economics ... either spend money now directly helping people so that they don't become poor or destitute.

Or spend lots of money later in policing, judicial, legal, political, social, medical and security services to try to deal with the poor and in trying to get rid of a problem that you created.

There has been many studies in the past that dealt with this issue ... it's cheaper to just directly help people now rather than in trying to hide the problem (which never works anyway)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A coalition of advocacy organizations is taking a previously proposed Barrie bylaw amendment to the United Nations as an example of a policy that criminalizes homelessness in Canada.

After Tuesday's meeting, the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition and Pivot Legal society sent the proposed bylaw amendments to the UN's rapporteurs on the right to adequate housing and extreme poverty.

The intergovernmental agency has put out a call for laws impacting unhoused people for a report on decriminalizing homelessness, with a submission deadline of early October.

"We're very concerned about the direction that the city [of Barrie] is taking and so we thought it was important to raise alongside a number of other bylaws across the country for consideration and context for the United Nations analysis," said DJ Larkin, the executive director of the drug policy coalition.

When introduced, the proposed bylaw amendments also appeared to make it illegal for charitable organizations to provide supplies to unhoused people on city property.

"At the United Nations level, we are hoping to demonstrate how Canada's failure to address the overlapping crises of toxic drugs, homelessness and income insecurity are playing out on our streets," Larkin said.

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