When Care Becomes Confinement: Rethinking Manitoba’s 72-Hour Detention Model - a podcast
Five key takeaways from a conversation with MP Leah Gazan on detention, public health, and constitutional limits
Debates surrounding public safety and addiction often focus on visible disorder and political urgency. This episode shifts the focus to how these issues are experienced on the ground, and how legal responses can unintentionally deepen the very harms they seek to address.
Protective Detention or Constitutional Problem? Bill 48 and the Section 7 Case Against Manitoba's 72-Hour Detox Law
n November 2025, Manitoba became the first province in Canada to authorize 72 hours of involuntary detention for intoxicated individuals, tripling the previous limit with near-unanimous legislative support. Bill 48, The Protective Detention and Care of Intoxicated Persons Act, passed through the legislature quickly, but the constitutional questions it raises will not resolve as easily.
