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The mayor of Charlottetown says P.E.I. Housing Minister Steven Myers is trying to “usurp the power” of his councillors when it comes to a decision about the Community Outreach Centre’s future.

On Tuesday, Myers told the provincial legislature and later CBC News that the centre will remain at its current location on Park Street whether Charlottetown councillors like it or not, saying: “It is not moving, and that’s the end of the story.”

But Mayor Philip Brown said the housing minister needs to be patient and wait for the city’s decision on approving the province’s request for a zoning amendment to let the centre providing services for vulnerable Islanders stay put. 

“I’m not going to be forced to be in a defensive mode on this. We’re here to work together,” Brown told Island Morning‘s Mitch Cormier on Wednesday.

‘To think that we are going to be pushed or be told what to do, I don’t think that’s fair to this council, this …
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