Premier Wab Kinew said Wednesday that Manitoba’s first supervised consumption site won’t be opened at a previously proposed Disraeli Freeway location.

“We are looking at other locations,” Kinew said in response to a question asked at an unrelated RBC Convention Centre event, adding the government heard the concerns of community members who felt the site, announced last December, was too close to a daycare and a high school.

“When we listen to residents in one area and hear them say, ‘This is not the right fit for the neighbourhood,’ we take that seriously,” he said after addressing the Assembly of First Nations.

“We did a good faith consultation with the community. There’s clearly a desire to look at other locations. We’re doing that work now.”

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