How to solve the homeless issue: Saskatchewan buys 1-way bus tickets to B.C. for homeless men
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[url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/saskatchewan-buys-1-way-bus-tickets-to-b-c-for-homeless-men-1.3483429[/url]
[quote]A decision by a Saskatchewan government social services employee to buy bus tickets to British Columbia for two homeless men is raising concerns in both provinces.
According to Caitlin Glencross, who works with the Lighthouse homeless shelter in North Battleford, Sask., the out-of-work men were applying to the province for a spot at the shelter.
But instead of getting funding to stay at the shelter — which has been locked in a funding dispute with the province of Saskatchewan — one of the men was offered a bus ticket to anywhere outside of the province, she said.
When he said he had a friend on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast, he was offered a one-way ticket on a Greyhound bus to Vancouver, Glencross said.
The second man, who managed to secure funding for a bed at the shelter, then asked for and was issued a ticket to B.C., even though he had never left the province before, she said.[/quote]
This isnt uncommon in the states. Chicago moves people all the time with a one-way bus ticket elsewhere.
Its also a tactic to remove gangs from your city. Just push them somewhere else.
Eat a dick, Saskatchewan.
No, but really. This is a complicated issue, and part of this case seems to be limited to one guy wanting to go to where he has somewhere to sleep. It's not like they filled a bus with them. The other guy, who just wanted a shelter, perhaps should be chocked up to Saskatchewan incompetence. Right of mobility is still a thing though so it all depends on what the people being moved think.
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