I would like to thank Don and the NDP for proposing this amendment. Supervised consumption and drug-checking services help to save lives. There's no doubt. They're an important, evidence-based part of Canada's comprehensive public health response to addressing substance use-related harms in the overdose crisis.
While the goal of this measure and proposed new regulatory schemes is absolutely to improve the availability and accessibility of supervised consumption and drug-checking services across Canada, it is also the government's intent to maintain strict controls that are consistent with the public health and public safety objectives of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. We believe the balance between these two pieces is really important to get right, and we believe that this measure as drafted, i.e., the actual clause 461, properly reflects that balance. We don't want to tamper with that.
We'll be voting against this amendment.