Public Safety committee  Yes. I spoke to the people in Vancouver. That's where we were looking. InSite is the program everyone is looking at as the benchmark. When we look at what happened in Vancouver, for instance in eastside, they had to put an additional 81 police officers into that community, into

Public Safety committee  First of all, again, where we want to see the emphasis.... I want to clarify a couple of things. This not fearmongering. This is not fear. We're coming to it from a very practical and business case oriented discussion around this bill, around InSite. The doctor brought up a grea

Public Safety committee  Yes, and in fact in every division we have in Toronto we have what we call our community police liaison committee formed of stakeholders within every community throughout the city of Toronto who we deal with on a regular basis. I was very much a big part of that in Regent Park. A

Public Safety committee  Definitely. It would represent a cross-section of all society.

Public Safety committee  Exactly. Yes, they would be.

Public Safety committee  I participated in the discussion at St. Michael's Hospital from a broader level, more of a 10,000-foot level, talking about the supervised or safe injection experience in Vancouver and speaking to communities from across the city about our concerns from a policing perspective, bu

Public Safety committee  —yes—such as investing in drug treatment courts with alternatives to incarceration and treatment centres. We feel that we need to focus more on treatment and that this is a band-aid solution to a bigger problem. Thank you.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Michael McCormack. I'm the president of the Toronto Police Association. Here in Toronto I represent one of the most diverse communities in all of Canada. I also represent over 8,000 members. First of all, I want to thank the standing commit