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Public Safety committee Thank you very much. I would also like to thank you for inviting me and granting me the opportunity to speak today. As mentioned, my name is Chris Grinham and I am co-founder of a non-profit group named Safer Ottawa. My wife and I founded Safer Ottawa in 2007 to address the iss
October 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Chris Grinham
Public Safety committee It has been our position, as I've said, from the research that we've looked at—and we've looked specifically at Ottawa—that the numbers that are often quoted are either quoted out of context or quoted without the full information. As I've said before, it's important that the enti
October 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Chris Grinham
Public Safety committee Yes, I have heard that there have been studies in other cities. I've also heard that there have been lots of studies to the contrary, and studies that show.... We have the Swedish model that has shown that treatment and enforcement has worked extremely well. We have San Patrignan
October 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Chris Grinham
Public Safety committee I have read several of the studies. I haven't read them all, of course.
October 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Chris Grinham
Public Safety committee Thank you. I think it's very important to have a broad range of consultation. I don't think consultation should be limited to people with Ph.D.s. I think there are people from all walks of life who have valuable input and valuable information who can help us sculpt and build a p
October 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Chris Grinham
Public Safety committee Is there a question?
October 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Chris Grinham
Public Safety committee I'm aware of all sorts of different information that's come out of InSite from treatment, from drug use, and from overdose and whatnot.
October 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Chris Grinham
Public Safety committee Community support, community non-support; I think you can find people who support InSite. I think you can find people who don't support InSite. Our concern has always been to make sure that those people are consulted before a site is developed, not after. I know it is sometimes
October 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Chris Grinham
Public Safety committee —is to make sure that permission is asked for and not forgiveness later.
October 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Chris Grinham