I think we need to mainstream what I would describe as safe places for people to use drugs. Former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi said that his concern when he left the mayoral office was they only had one supervised consumption site. Where you have one, that's where you get a concentration of people. That's where you get concerns. These need to be more mainstream. That's the first thing. We should look at the mainstreaming of supervised consumption sites as a basic health response.
Second, we need to look at regulated substances, not just unique programs. We need to completely look at how we could replace this toxic supply. We should be looking at a number of alternatives that respond to concerns about things like diversion and look at different models that could work and be willing to do that.
The third thing is we need to have some national standards on what recovery and treatment mean. I mentioned five specific things: evidence-based, rapid access, publicly funded, regulated and, finally, trauma-informed and culturally appropriate.