The only person on this committee who said there are illegal operations in British Columbia is Mr. Davies, and nobody else has said that, I don't think.
Second, with regard to the article in the report he read from, this is a new government. This is a new bill, and this is a new minister of health, so where the previous government was setting up obstacles to safe consumption sites, this government is doing everything they can to facilitate them and get them in place. The bureaucratic processes described in that report are not proven and are not necessarily going to be in effect here.
Your first point was that the minister has the power to do this right now, to waive the Supreme Court requirements, to waive what's in section 42. I believe the minister could take a phone call tomorrow from a minister of health, if the bill were to be passed and enacted.
I have a question, then, for the staff here. Does the minister not already have the discretion to do this in an urgent situation if a phone call came from a minister? Do we need this amendment? Does she already have the power?