Last week, Alex Nuttall, the mayor of Barrie, Ont., declared a state of emergency in his city, due to safety concerns, namely the rise in criminal activity at homeless encampments.

“Barrie is a place you come if you need and you want help,” Nuttall, a former one-term Conservative MP, told reporters. “It is not the place you come and put a tent on the side of the road, use drugs, carry crossbows and pistols, and set up shop as a drug dealer. So, if you don’t want help and that’s not your thing, please go somewhere else.”

Moreover, the mayor suggested that, “These actions are necessary due to the length of time of lawlessness in our city and due to the increase in severity of lawlessness in our city.” He hopes the city’s state of emergency will help “reclaim our streets, our boulevards

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