Yes, for sure. I mean, there are long wait times to use Insite. There are scientific papers showing that's among the reasons why people will go and inject in the alleys.
Just to describe it for people, it is a horrible life, as my colleague has alluded to. People are using water from puddles, or people are defecating in those same alleys and drawing up water into used syringes and injecting street drugs into their arms. People will often do that because they're in severe withdrawal, they're at risk of a negative interaction with a street predator if they're standing in a lineup, and they can't get into a health program, so they'll go and they'll inject on the street.
We need to scale up these programs, but as I've said and as you're hearing, the funding for these things is actually relatively small in comparison to the huge money that's going into the downstream consequences of addiction. That money would be much better spent on effective treatment programs so that we can do the public health side of things and also the recovery-oriented system of care that does not exist and really needs to be developed.
In terms of the legislation itself, it's my understanding that the federal government is working with Vancouver Coastal Health within the existing legislation, but that public health officials like Dr. Patty Daly, who are involved in that, feel that the legislation is onerous and really is not supporting any sort of positive outcome in terms of what it may have originally been intended to do.