Thank you so much for the question.
Alberta's government continues to fund drug consumption sites, but our position is fundamentally that without an off-ramp out of addiction and treatment capacity being built, which is seriously and chronically underfunded and under-built across the country, how do you expect somebody to ever get healthy?
The purpose of a health care system should be about getting people care, treatment and into recovery and healthy, so we fund them. However, I don't think a drug consumption site on every corner is going to solve this problem. We need a serious adult conversation as a country about what that off-ramp looks like. Alberta is putting a policy option forward that has largely been ignored by the rest of the country for the last 25 years.