The supervised consumption site has been more successful than any of us envisioned. There are still a lot of barriers for people in the community, particularly people living outside of Whitehorse. Remote and northern work has unique challenges, but there are community members who are contacting us and really wanting to do this work. There's a team of grandmothers in Old Crow, a fly-in community in the heart of Vuntut Gwitchin territory, who are going door to door to distribute harm reduction to the youth.
I think the Yukon needs to look at exploring those community-led solutions and working with knowledge keepers, elders and people with lived experience to provide these services outside of Whitehorse. We're making progress, but people continue to die. We need more.