Good morning. Thank you for being with us today.
This isn't the first time the Insite site has been threatened with closing. I remember going to Toronto at the time of the HIV-AIDS meeting. There was a demonstration in Vancouver. I had joined the group to support funding for the Insite site.
Mr. Mangham, I felt somewhat concerned by what you said. You say you are a researcher and are able to say you aren't satisfied with the scientific research on harm reduction and addiction control, and that it has produced no results. However, we sense that there are different ideologies. Other people in the field and other researchers have come to utterly different conclusions. Two witnesses told us by videoconference that, for them, this is a health issue. Not only are we thinking about the reduction of effects, but you also have to consider other objectives that are being pursued by one of the pillars of harm reduction, the Insite site.
What does it offer to that population, which in any case would use drugs in conditions that are perhaps harder and more dangerous for the public? You said that you didn't approve of the research, but that you were explaining your point of view by citing your figures and the type of research that you've conducted to contradict the scientific research, which was objective with respect to the objective pursued.