I'll speak for the Alberta context, not for other provinces. As you well know, and as I've made it abundantly clear, safe supply is illegal in Alberta. Unfortunately, we still have the policy consequences of safe supply coming into our province from reckless, unwitnessed safe supply programs in British Columbia, for example. It is the world's most radical drug policy. No other jurisdiction does it, and it is deeply devastating to the next generation of new addicts coming online.
However, beyond stopping that, or at the very least, if you refuse to stop it federally, employing the chemical tracer so we know the diversion....
I'd say the Government of Alberta has stepped forward in a very big way by partnering with indigenous communities. Importantly and constitutionally, this is the responsibility of the federal Crown. I believe we've stepped into a space that has been left open and abandoned by the federal government. I would like to see it come to help us with what the first nations are asking for, which is treatment capacity in a land-based, culturally sensitive, integrated continuum of care, from shelter systems all the way through to post-recovery housing and everything in between, with the corollary investment to follow. This is because, right now, it's falling on us.
Happily, we are partnering, because we believe we need to. We'd like to see the feds also fulfill their responsibility.