Green Leader Elizabeth May touts party platform at stop in Kitchener

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May was in Kitchener, Ont. Monday afternoon just hours after releasing her party's platform for the federal election.

"Housing is a right," she told a group gathered in a room at House of Friendship before touring the social and affordable housing the agency provides.

She said social housingis needed to help people get out of addictions and move on with their lives. She said that's why her platform has an expanded housing strategy.

She said there's a need for a safe supply of drugs and harm reduction sites where people can use them. These are interim measures, May said, and added they're necessary because people can't trust street drugs that could potentially be laced with fentanyl.

May campaignedMonday afternoon with Kitchener Centre candidate Mike Morrice, who is facingLiberalincumbent Raj Saini, Conservative Stephen Woodworth, the NDP's Andrew Moraga, People's Party of Canada candidatePatrick Bernier andEllen Papenburg, candidate for the Animal Protection Party of Canada.

May was scheduled to be ata rally in Guelph Monday evening.

May will join CBC Kitchener-Waterloo's The Morning Edition Tuesday at 7:10 a.m.