It's not easy to have these discussions with some sectors of society. What we learned in Vancouver in implementing the four pillars drug strategy, which had a very big focus on harm reduction, was that if you get people together in a room and really talk about the common goals, you'll find that more often than not, they all agree that they want to save lives and to reduce infections and infectious disease transmission.
It takes a lot of dialogue. It's very difficult to have these discussions in partisan political forums because, unfortunately, drug policy is a subject used for political gain. That's very sad, especially at a moment in our history right now when so many people are dying. There's so much evidence that harm reduction helps people and actually saves lives.
While we're building these long-term systems of treatment that you were referring to in your last question, we really need to acknowledge that tonight, on the streets of our country, people are in desperate need of support and life-saving services. It's not an either-or. Trying to articulate that continuum, I think, is one of the things we have to really get better at doing, and not play one part of the continuum off against the other. We need them all. We need services now, this evening. We need, of course, to build that system of treatment of mental health and addiction that you're referring to.