While I applaud their intent to make their community safer, I take exception to the fact that they're doing it at the expense of other communities.
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The goal, community leaders say, is to make the area safer.
If this method of crime prevention works for the Ahousaht, I think all major cities that are overun by drug addicts should look at this model as a viable alternative to putting them in jail.
Oh wait, we can't do that now can we, since, we don't have someone elses neighborhood or city to send them to, not to mention that it might be considered immoral, reprehensible, and highly illegal for any other segment of Canadian Society to do.
This is the bands easy way out. Since they don't ascribe to the Charter as proven by their ability to run their problem people out of town, they could just as easily have made treatment manditory rather than foist these said same problems on the rest of Canadian society.