The leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party isn’t satisfied with the new Rapid Accesses to Addictions Medicine (RAAM) clinics.

Dougald Lamont spoke to Arctic Radio News, and said their limited hours of operation are unacceptable. He said that he’s not sure “if it even adds up to a full clinic being open” when you combine the hours of all RAAM clinics across the province.

The St Boniface MLA said that addicts aren’t just addicts “two hours a day, a couple of days a week”, and that they need full-time care available. He said that when someone is in withdrawal, experts have said that there might be just a brief window were a person is willing to come in for treatment and that if it doesn’t happen then, they might go back to using.

Lamont added that even if addicts are able to get to a RAAM clinic while it’s open the referrals made could be to private treatment centres, many of which could be too expensive.