Dr. de Villa, the Conservative Doug Ford Ontario provincial government recently announced plans to close certain supervised consumption sites and prevent new sites from opening. This flies in the face of what we heard in earlier testimony from the deputy commissioner of the RCMP and the president of the B.C. Chiefs of Police, from my home province, who both said that we need more safe consumption sites, not less.
Can you please share your thoughts about the potential impact of these closures on people who use drugs in Toronto and on public safety? For example, do you believe that closures could lead to increased deaths and/or public drug use?