Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I will also try not to exceed my seven minutes.
My first question is for Ms. DeGroote.
Thank you very much for your testimony. I especially liked the part where you talked about your work in the two clinics—in Burlington and in Hamilton. You saw that Canadians were reluctant with regard to those types of clinics.
When I heard that, it made me think of a Conservative campaign titled “Keep heroin out of our backyards”, which can be found on their website. The campaign is clearly targeting supervised injection sites. The Conservatives are trying to provoke fear in people and make them not want those clinics close to them or close to their family. So it is clear that the government is trying to frighten people, even though those clinics are ultimately supervised, regardless of how they operate.
Do you think it is okay for the Canadian government to spread fear among people, and try to convince them that those clinics have no place in their neighbourhoods and that they pose a danger to their family?
What do you think about that, Ms. DeGroote?