MLA urges Victoria to look for a better option than tent city

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MLA Rob Fleming encourages the city to look beyond the proposed ‘tent city’.

Victoria should abandon plans to locate a temporary tent city in Topaz Park, says Rob Fleming, MLA for the area. “I appreciate the mayor’s commitment to now listen to residents and, at this juncture, I can’t see this proposal going ahead in Topaz Park,” Fleming, the NDP member for Victoria-Swan Lake, said from the Interior where he is vacationing.

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Source: Times Colonist

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