When Olivia Chow moves into the mayor’s office in a couple of weeks, one of the biggest issues on her desk will be what to do about Toronto’s homeless encampments. Unruly collections of tents and tarps have sprung up in parks, ravines and underpasses around the city. There are a staggering 270 of them, twice as many as a year ago.
They are not nice places to live in. Fires, overdoses and fights are common. They are not nice places to live near, either. Neighbours and passersby often complain about noise, garbage and discarded needles.
Chow will embrace homeless camps and encourage their expansion all the while demanding tax payers pony up to solve a problem she has no intention of fixing.
Solving the “Homeless crisis” would kill the Golden Goose.
