Thank you.
Will all due respect to Dr. Carrie, I understand that there are all these social ills going on in these areas. We know that before these sites were established, much of this was going on anyway. These sites were put in areas where this was already an issue. Whether there have been increases in these rates in the meantime is difficult to say.
Do we know if that would have happened anyway? We don't know. We just know that these sites are put in areas where large numbers of addicts are injecting to start with.
This is a way of reducing the death rate, the transmission of infectious diseases, the finding of dirty needles, and all the other ills that come with this. Basically, as we've said, it is reducing the harm that comes with these activities.
This amendment is so over-prescriptive that it's going to more or less prevent it from happening in the first place. This basically reinserts a great number of the provisions of the so-called safe communities act, which was meant to prevent this from happening in the first place.
I can't speak for my colleagues, but I would imagine that they would agree that we will be opposing this amendment.