See below the list of wide-ranging reports and motions on the Agenda for the June 23, 2025 Council Meeting.
However, although there may be varying degrees of significance concerning the decisions and votes to be made at this Monday's Council Meeting, I strongly believe what Oshawa Council unequivocally needs to pass at this time is the Notice of Motion CNCL-25-45 - Controlled Substances within the City of Oshawa (All Wards) (listed almost at the end of the Agenda)
It is a motion to make community safety in Oshawa priority ONE, by combatting the prevailing defeatism on the issue of open-air illicit drug and substances abuse in the City.
We have a collective responsibility to preserve our public spaces, parks, sidewalks, store fronts, not only for us, but for our neighbours, our children and the next generation.
It is time Oshawa Council takes a stand and lets the police know that strong action must be taken before Oshawa’s worsening highly visible illicit drug problem becomes UNFIXABLE.
It is no longer excusable to hold back, delay, refer or take a pass on making it known, that, like the Edmonton Police Service and Peterborough Police Service, who have begun to engage in the arrest and seizure policy to deter flagrant drug use that harms the community, Oshawa Council expects the law to be upheld in our City, and regardless of whether the Public Prosecution Service of Canada prosecutes such offences, that the Durham Regional Police Service, as a matter of policy, exercise the power to arrest persons found committing such offences, search them incident to arrest, and seize any controlled substances in their possession.
However, although there may be varying degrees of significance concerning the decisions and votes to be made at this Monday's Council Meeting, I strongly believe what Oshawa Council unequivocally needs to pass at this time is the Notice of Motion CNCL-25-45 - Controlled Substances within the City of Oshawa (All Wards) (listed almost at the end of the Agenda)
It is a motion to make community safety in Oshawa priority ONE, by combatting the prevailing defeatism on the issue of open-air illicit drug and substances abuse in the City.
We have a collective responsibility to preserve our public spaces, parks, sidewalks, store fronts, not only for us, but for our neighbours, our children and the next generation.
It is time Oshawa Council takes a stand and lets the police know that strong action must be taken before Oshawa’s worsening highly visible illicit drug problem becomes UNFIXABLE.
It is no longer excusable to hold back, delay, refer or take a pass on making it known, that, like the Edmonton Police Service and Peterborough Police Service, who have begun to engage in the arrest and seizure policy to deter flagrant drug use that harms the community, Oshawa Council expects the law to be upheld in our City, and regardless of whether the Public Prosecution Service of Canada prosecutes such offences, that the Durham Regional Police Service, as a matter of policy, exercise the power to arrest persons found committing such offences, search them incident to arrest, and seize any controlled substances in their possession.
