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Bedbug battle cash urged
Health officials want city to spend $75,000 to help tenants fight scourge. Toronto's public health department is urging the city to put up $75,000 in emergency funding to help vulnerable adults in the city get rid of bedbugs. But that's just one-time funding, and city officials are predicting that far more will be called for when a special committee tackling the city's bedbug problem reports next spring.
"I don't want to guess, but it'll be a lot more than $75,000," Councillor John Filion, who chairs the Toronto Board of Health, said yesterday.
If approved by city council next month, the emergency money will help people who don't qualify for welfare or disability support payments to pay for services that prepare and spray their homes for the insects.
The $75,000 cash infusion is one of the recommendations in an interim report by the city's bedbug project, a committee comprising public health, hostel services and solid waste officials, along with community agencies, health-care and pest-control providers, and landlord and tenant representatives.
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