We have to advocate for residents, businesses along with the disadvantaged community together, it has to be two fold.
For the disadvantaged community we promote recovery along with harm reduction, we lobby the province and make it mandatory for the social agencies to provide wrap-around services. It was tried by our council but they got cold feet and diluted the whole motion by adding two words "where applicable"

For our citizens, we need to stop the secret meetings when it comes to social housing, the only reason I can think why they conduct these secret meetings when it comes to social housing is that they are ashamed of the decisions being made without any consultations with the community. We need to be equal partners with BC Housing, CMHA, and the province on where these facilities should go. What we are doing right now is not working, and that's an understatement.
Also to my understanding, there is no more car 40 in Kamloops, I called 2 days ago and was told the same. We have a few incumbents in this section lobbying for more car 40s. I don't know what to think of that.