WINNIPEG -- up to study how to respond to the rising use of methamphetamines and other illicit drugs in Manitoba.
Representatives from the city of Winnipeg, the province and the federal government are to come up with recommendations by June.
The group will be led by a provincial deputy minister of health and the city's chief corporate services officer.
Manitoba Health Minister Cameron Friesen says the committee will explore possible changes to treatment, support programs and the Criminal Code.
He says he's not ideologically opposed to the idea of a safe consumption site, but will wait for the recommendations.
The Manitoba Government and General Employees' Union says its members who work in hospitals, jails and other facilities are seeing a sharp increase in meth-related violence.
