23 Replies to “I’m No Expert”

  5. I agree that the decision of the judge was ridiculous. When the Carter was conceived, we had vagrancy laws. I do strongly dislike you idea of a 1-way ticket to BC, as LOTS of our homeless are not from BC. We do not need any more.

  6. a one way ticket to Ottawa might be more “just”
    Yah Occam, they need more enabling, that’ll do the trick.

  7. Why would the homeless want to live at the court house?
    They know that would only annoy the judges and make the Judges rethink their position.
    If you send the homeless anywhere they will go where they want in that city and they won’t want to go to the courthouse. Other public areas sure but would they “bite the hand that feeds” probably not in this instance.

  8. Leftists have caused this problem on purpose. First close the mental institutions so the insane are on the streets then make entitlements so easy to get that some people will be dependent on the gov. Then the left can point to all this and scream that more money is needed for “programs”, and guess who runs all the programs? Leftists. These leftists pray on people and so they can have cushy do-nothing jobs paid for by taxpayers cause they can’t cut it in the free market.
    A way to solve this would be to bring back mental institutions and put the appropriate people back into them. Use the vagrancy laws and throw these people in jail and make jails a place you don’t want to spend time in, like they used to be.
    Now the story said there are many of them, well they can spend their first night in jail getting cleaned up and then get whatever job they can get and rent somewhere to live together and work themselves up in society. I bet they are now just a bunch of welfare bums sitting around doing drugs and stealing things at the moment.

  10. Half of them probably are “insane” or at least mentally ill.
    Talk to some of ’em sometime as I did when they would wander in to our job sites in the DES, a few words exchanged and it was pretty obvious they should have been in an institution.
    But all the Provincial governments,in one of the most cynical political moves ever made in this Country, closed all the MH facilities,too expensive to maintain,and they knew it was safe to make budget cuts there as the victims are essentially helpless and have no advocates with any power.
    This is a national disgrace,and don’t expect the New Messiah in Ottawa to do anything about it. Politicians love to bleat on about their deep concern for “the homeless” just to show us all how “caring” they are without ever acknowledging WHY they’re homeless.
    No,let’s spend a billion or so bringing 25,000 refugees here from the ME, instead of looking after our own.

  11. Absolutely right, Patrick. Everyone knows it, yet fawns over the Emperor’s new clothes.
    The peasants are revolting. Patrick for King.

  13. So I read the entire article, and all I have to say is it’s a fantastic example of poor journalism. The guy says he’s living in a tent because Lighthouse won’t let him in. Later in the article, the reporter interviews someone at Lighthouse. Instead of asking the extremely obvious question, “WHY”, they go into how social programs could help. Why won’t Lighthouse let them in?

  14. I had the privilege to meet, yesterday, a young lady who turned her life around thanks to a non-profit organization that shelters homeless women. Although I am basing my observations on a sample size n = 1, her trajectory was quite typical, involving a dysfunctional family, use of drugs and alcohol to ease the psychological pain, and a promiscuous life meant to supply the love that could not be found at home. Homelessness, jail time and multiple pregnancies followed. From this very interesting encounter, a few things came up, which are relevant to this topic:
    (1) The most effective way to combat homelessness is strengthening the family and family values. Unfortunately, our courts have been throwing all that through the window, and Turdeau has campaigned around topics that will further erode this;
    (2) Strong and supportive families are way more likely to stick together in the event of the sh!t hitting the fan. One of my former colleagues, a now retired professor of chemistry, had the displeasure to find out that his daughter, a budding artist living in NYC, had got into crystal meth, courtesy of her artsy friends. Parents and daughter were able to work together, devise a plan, and go through a painful rehab process, which is still ongoing. Without support, is unlikely that she would have escaped the downward spiral;
    (3) Directly supporting non-profit organization that help bring folks out of homelessness, preferably organizations that receive little, if any, government assistance, is very effective. When an organization has to work hard to raise the funds that keep it going, you know that they will be effective, and the effort is felt by those whom the organization is supposed to help. The young lady I met went from an alumnus of an organization to a tireless worker for the same non-profit.
    In summary: strong families; no tolerance towards drug use; private enterprise. And this country elected Turdeau…

  17. Half of them probably are “insane”
    Probably 100% are bat crap crazy or substance abusers. The crazy ones are no doubt being “treated in the community.” I’m sure crazy and a junky are two reasons that might keep someone out of a shelter.
    I’m just ticked off at paying for camping in BC when it’s my constitutional right to freeload anywhere I want.

  18. The young lady I met went from an alumnus of an organization to a tireless worker for the same non-profit.
    I don’t want to denigrate the hard work this young woman has obviously put in to turn her life around, but it seems to me that a very large number of people who have suffered these kinds of tragedies never really leave the rehab industry. Much like people from broken homes who get sociology degrees and then end up working in social services, or people who suffer from psychiatric problems and decide to go into counselling or psychology, there seems to be a closed loop there.

  19. Well said and I agree wholeheartedly. I have also met and know some people like this.
    But, we have to remember that the leftists, cultural Marxists, et al see the family and family values as their mortal enemy as the family impedes their efforts to replace the family with the state. The state should be our father and mother.

  20. Don, I’m pretty sure that the provinces did not close all the mental health facilities since I live a 5 minute walk from one in Whitby (Ontario). What I do know is that, here in Ontario, when Boob Rae was the Premiere he decided that anyone found wandering the streets freezing to death or panhandling had a perfect right to do so under the lovely (Trudeau) Charter of Rights and Freedoms. So his government made it illegal to institutionalize anyone unless they were and absolute threat to someone else. That was progress circa the early 80s and somehow it never got turned around.
    However, the subsequent provincial government of Mike Harris got the blame by the LIVs. Go figure…

  23. Kate, you joke about a one-way bus ticket to BC, but back in 1996 the city of Atlanta ‘solved’ its homeless problem (just weeks prior to the Atlanta Olympics) by giving one-way bus tickets to Atlanta’s homeless (aka, “urban outdoorsmen”) to American destinations that were at least 1000 miles away from Atlanta. In the Summer of ’96 Atlanta had NO annoying homeless people messing up their Olympic party … and the city police also rounded up ALL “the usual suspects” and held them in jail without bail until the Games were over! The entire 1996 “clean up Atlanta” operation was a thing of beauty to behold! I heartily recommend it to Saskatoon and EVERY Canadian city …. buy them one way bus tickets to Ottawa or Vancouver.

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