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LETTER: Health advocate calls for stronger community treatment orders in P.E.I.

P.E.I. is opening the legislative assembly of P.E.I. for its fall sitting on Nov. 3, marking its historic return to the newly restored Province House after a nearly 12-year renovation.

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There will be countless debates on many issues. I have been lobbying for an amendment to the P.E.I. Community Treatment Order for over two years. This includes collaborating with two renowned community treatment order experts, namely, Dr. Richard O’Reilly and Dr. John Gray. In conjunction with that, I have had communication with Robert K. McKee, K.C., the minister responsible for addictions and mental health services in New Brunswick.

I contacted the New Brunswick Government as they have the best supervised community care plans in Canada. Actually, their SCCs have the same medical objective as the Prince Edward Island CTO.

What is a community treatment order? The CTO in........

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