Okay. Those are the ones for which we have received the full and entire applications. Several other communities have applications that are in process, and my department has been helping them with some of the steps along the way.
One of the challenges under the current legislation was that we were not able to comment or to even provide feedback or begin a review of an application until it was complete. That requires, in some cases, as in some of the new applications in Vancouver, that they have an almost complete application. They have some work to do on, for example, renovating the space where they want the site to be available, but we can't actually do all of the work until things are complete.
Our commitment now is to have a much different approach, in a number of ways. One is that we intend to be able to post online the progress that sites are making so they can see where they are and which pieces are missing. The federal government actually takes the heat on not approving these sites, when many times the barriers to site approval have nothing to do with federal jurisdiction but have to do with local municipalities or with provincial governments providing support, for example. We want to be more clear on that, so that advocates who are pushing for this are pushing on the right levers to be able to get these sites open. Once this legislation passes through, we're also committed to allowing partial reviews of applications that are in process.
Hilary may have some other things to add, but I want to also address the last question, which I think is really important in terms of where we foresee these going and how many communities will have them. I think it's very important that this committee have a central role in this so as not to cause undue anxiety in communities where it's absolutely not appropriate to have supervised consumption sites. This is a crisis that is spotty in where it affects people. Yes, there are people across the country who die of overdoses, but there are some areas where the crisis is intense, as in southern British Columbia.
In those communities that want and need them and where there's strong community support, we have to be able to make them available to save people's lives, but there are all kinds of communities in the country where it's not appropriate, there's no community desire to have one, and there's no demonstrated need. Clearly the fearmongering around supervised consumption sites on every street corner is not helpful at all. We need to make sure that these will go to the communities that need them, that are crying out for them because people are dying, and we need to support those places.
Do any of you want to fill in any blanks? No? Okay.