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Liberals vow to improve addictions treatment
WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Jon Gerrard greets bus riders in Burrows riding Tuesday.
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THE Liberal party added another plank to its crime-prevention platform Wednesday by promising to beef up addiction treatment in the province.
Leader Jon Gerrard said in a statement that without more focused addictions services, violent crime will continue to plague Manitoba.
"The wait-times to get addictions treatment under the NDP are unacceptable," Gerrard said.
Gerrard said in the statement that studies show that 70 per cent of those arrested for violent offences test positive for substance abuse.
He said in the first year of a Liberal government $1.2 million would go to different addictions treatment facilities, such as the Behavioural Foundation in St. Norbert, to reduce addictions wait times.
The NDP and the Progressive Conservatives will each roll out their own addictions programs during the campaign.
Several months ago the NDP announced it was redeveloping a former seniors complex in Point Douglas to improve addictions treatment.
The St. Norbert riding is one where the Liberals hope to squeak by the Tories and NDP. Marcel Laurendeau, the former PC MLA for St. Norbert, is running for the Liberals on Oct. 4.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 8, 2011 A5
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