The Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) wants to ban supervised drug consumption sites within 150 metres of schools and daycare centres in Montreal, and within 250 metres elsewhere in Quebec.
Liberal MNA Marwah Rizqy tabled Bill 892 on Wednesday in response to the controversy surrounding the Maison Benoit Labre, located near an elementary school in the Montreal’s Sud-Ouest borough.
Since the centre opened last April, local residents reported dozens of incidents involving theft, violence, crack cocaine use, nudity and public defecation.
“Many of you have written to ask us to legislate to ensure that supervised drug consumption centres are not set up in the vicinity of schools and daycare centres,” Rizqy wrote on X.
“I stood up in the National Assembly to question the Legault government on this issue a year ago. Last September, Premier François Legault finally admitted that children cannot be asked to live with intoxicated people.”
“The parliamentary …