I wrote a letter to Minister Ya'ara Saks, which I also carbon-copied to Premier David Eby, to the effect that I actually support a call from doctors across Canada, addiction specialists, including 72 in British Columbia, who are calling for witnessed prescribed alternatives that are recovery oriented.
My purpose in coming here today isn't to stop people from getting life-saving medications, if this is what is important. I want to make sure that we understand the scope of the risk to the population. There is a population-level risk that is even identified by Dr. Henry, for example, in her report that you referred to, which was released on February 1.
If we're going to be providing treatments, which, as you stated, in Dr. Henry's report, have not enough evidence at this point to be described as fully evidence-based, we need to make sure that we're not causing unintentional harms.