Harini Sivalingam, Director of Equality Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association released the following letter the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Hamilton, urging them to vote against rescinding the City’s Encampment Protocol.
Rescinding the Encampment Protocol is not an effective measure to combat the homelessness crisis which requires compassionate and long-term responses. The CCLA believes that rescinding the Encampment Protocol will put the lives of the City’s most vulnerable residents at risk. The CCLA is urging City of Hamilton Councillors to vote against the proposed resolution that will violate the dignity, rights, and freedoms of unhoused people in Hamilton.
Read the letter here.
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