I'm not a politician. I am a physician trying to provide the best possible advice.
I do find that when the conversation turns to the political, it becomes emotionally charged and takes us away from an evidenced-informed discussion, which is incredibly important when we're dealing with this health issue.
What I can say is that supervised consumption services are among the services that have come under recent attack and criticism. When we look at the evidence that's available in Toronto about the implementation of supervised consumption services, we see a 67% decrease in fatal overdoses within 500 meters of supervised consumption services. We see that there is an impact.
These are the kinds of data that need to come forward. There's no question. There's pain and there are challenges.
Ms. Krupp spoke of her own personal experiences, and those are very real. As I mentioned at the beginning, we're talking about people here, and that's all the more reason for us to really focus on the evidence, to think about the facts and to engage in that very difficult discussion, because oversimplifying and—