Councillor wants special UBCM resolution
PRINCE GEORGE – While the City is grappling with issues of homelessness, another crisis persists. Northern Health issued an overdose alert yesterday due to the increased number of drug-related deaths. The opioid crisis has prompted Councillor Cori Ramsay to ask the “… Intergovernmental Resolutions Committee to ask the North Central Local Government Association and the Union of BC Municipalities to lobby the provincial government to modify the definition of emergency in the Emergency Program Act to include health-related emergencies …”
Currently, the definition of “emergency” includes accident, fire, explosion, technical failure or forces of nature.