Public Safety committee  Is there a question?

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.

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

Public Safety committee  —is to make sure that permission is asked for and not forgiveness later.

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

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

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

Public Safety committee  I have read several of the studies. I haven't read them all, of course.

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