[Fido969]

The ultimate of the enabling nanny state. How to deal with drunks? Just get them off the street, into taxpayer-funded housing, and keep them drunk on the taxpayer's dime. Oh, Canada, eh?

Alchoholism is a PROGRESSIVE desease. There is a temporary improvement - but these folks will just accelerate on their downward slide.

[CanadianBloodAmericanHeart]

Hopefully the Liberals will soon be homeless....

[M203M4]

One problem is free health care. We have to pay for all of their medical care. And in Canada, free health care is the holiest of holy cows. It is honestly, and pathetically, one of the key defining "Canadian" things. Saying bad things about free health care is pretty much taken as blasphemy. Or more like burning an American flag to the Americans. Isn't it great that the Canadian national identity is intertwinned with a socialist utopian boondoggle?

So this is, in a way, cost reduction (if it pans out as advertised at least, which I wouldn't bet on). Bah. I'm not sticking around in the country for long.

[dhs12345]

Hey, they can't disagree with you when they are drugged or drunk. Very nice passive little citizens when they are on the sauce. And they vote, too.

[Salman]

No A.A. in Canada? Or is that somehow politically incorrect?

[Brett66]

What a great idea! We should ship all of our bums to Canada.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Benefit of this program:

The nannies feel better about themselves

They ignore the sad reality that essentially there is nothing they can do to genuinely help these people other than food and shelter. i.e., make them a little more comfortable on their way to death.

[zerosix]

That's not the half of the socialist state, how about this one: the City of St. Louis sets homeless alchololics up in apartments with cabinets stocked with liquor! Reason, they'd rather "provide" the liquor since the addicted will probably get it somehow and it would be better to provide it rather than have the addicts stealing, etc. Taxpayer funded addictions?

[WasDougsLamb]

Ottawa shelter that gives drinks to homeless alcoholics


----Might as well start offering crack and heroin to homeless drug addicts cause now they will be screaming discrimination . (just kiddin)

[MEGoody]

If I ever found out that the shelters I donate to were using that money to provide alcoholic beverages to 'clients', they would never get another cent from me.

[hubbubhubbub]

How much is the airfare? I'm going on vacation.

[smonk]

when you remove the penalties associated with bad behavior, all you get is more bad behavior.