I have to assume Canada has laws on the books dictating the criteria and legal mechanisms through which someone can be involuntarily hospitalized, correct? If so, this just sounds like increasing psych bed capacity, where people are framing it like some accomplishment that’s going to “clean up the streets.”
More psych bed capacity is a good thing (assuming they are well-run facilities). Changing the laws to force someone into treatment who’s not an imminent risk of harm to themselves or others would not be good, but that’s not what this reads like.
I have to assume Canada has laws on the books dictating the criteria and legal mechanisms through which someone can be involuntarily hospitalized, correct? If so, this just sounds like increasing psych bed capacity, where people are framing it like some accomplishment that’s going to “clean up the streets.”
More psych bed capacity is a good thing (assuming they are well-run facilities). Changing the laws to force someone into treatment who’s not an imminent risk of harm to themselves or others would not be good, but that’s not what this reads like.
Does Canada have laws here or is it BC and the others? I’m a little fuzzy here on where this falls on the Fed/Crim vs Prov/Health side.