. . . . “I just profoundly disagree with any suggestion that encampments are acceptable, decent, reasonable places for people to live because I have seen, and British Columbians have seen the violence, the fires, the brutality that can arise in that kind of environment,” he said.
“At the same time, we know people are desperate, they need to set up a tent. So any kind of simplistic analysis around this is just that. It is a very complex and challenging issue — we have had experiences of decamping people directly into a motel where we had to ultimately close the motel because it was unsafe" . . . .
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