Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for welcoming me onto the committee this morning. It was a bit of a last-minute invite on a very interesting topic.
I wanted to add a little bit of local context from Guelph, the riding that I represent, regarding the safe supply programs here. I don't want to belabour things, but one of the issues I have with the motion overall that I think the amendment is trying to address is that the problem on the street is not caused by drugs that are provided for safer supply.
The problem on the street is, and I'm reading from the annual report from the Sanguen Health Centre, that “Access to safer supply reduced overdose risk and has kept clients alive”.