As the temperature drops in the city, those running the pop-up supervised injection site are hoping for a little help.
Overdose Prevention Ottawa is looking to the province for resources to help them get through the winter months as they need warmer tents and heaters for the site.
Recently, the province provided those items to a similar site in Toronto.
OPO has been told that in order to get help from the provincial government, the city would have to make a request.
Ottawa's mayor has no problem asking for government assistance but only for sites that have been legally approved.
Speaking with CFRA, Jim Watson had a message for the Ontario government.
"They should write a cheque to the legitimate site that is going to open up next door to the Shepherds of Good Hope in the trailers," he said. "Or to help fund the site (once) we have a permanent location on Clarence and Cumberland."
He said that if these two legal sites had more funding, there would be no need for a pop-up site where people are complaining about the cold.
Watson sent a letter to Federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor on Thursday requesting the approval of an exemption to operate a supervised injection site at Ottawa Inner City Health.
In the letter he touches on the pop-up site in Raphael Brunet Park and recognized that it has helped save many lives but said 'this type of health service in a City park is not sustainable - not least because winter in approaching'.