Thank you for the question.
I think that land-based treatment, especially through an indigenous lens, is a central pillar to how we look at recovery as an opportunity. We believe every single Albertan who suffers from addiction deserves an opportunity at recovery. We see really great outcomes. When you look at therapeutic living communities or recovery centres, which land-based treatment would be specifically within, when that's paired with opioid agonist therapy, the data is clear on that in terms of research. Also, our outcomes point to that as well. I understand you had Dr. Day present as well to this committee, our head of addiction medicine.
We partnered with five indigenous communities, four on reserve, where it really is not an imposition of, “This is what you're doing,” but a proposition: “How do we partner together for nation-to-nation conversation around...?” Every single first nation chief I speak to, every time I go on to a reserve, they're asking for recovery treatment capacity. They are asking for that. They are saying please. They understand that there are marketing terms around safe supply, etc., but they see past that because they see the carnage in their communities. They are saying, “Please help us with this,” so the Province of Alberta said that, even if it is federal jurisdiction, this is a community problem that we need to step into to work on with them.
We invested approximately $35 million in each of these recovery centres, plus the operation costs, where it will be owned and run on reserve by first nations, culturally integrated. We think it's a central piece in how we look at addressing the crisis.