I'd like to turn to a second issue: safe injection sites. I'd like to ask both of you about this. I think you both agree that they reduce mortality.
Dr. Werb, you talked about the potential closing of two safe injection sites in northern Ontario. I'm the member of Parliament for Thunder Bay—Rainy River. I would say—and I want you to address this issue—that there is a very heavy component of NIMBY—“not in my backyard”—with regard to safe injection sites. I have to say that I have a certain amount of sympathy for it. Would I be happy if a safe injection site were to open right next door to where I live? Probably not, especially when you combine it with decriminalization. What you tend to see around those sites is an accumulation of people selling drugs. Very rapidly, those become not very desirable parts of town.
Although in general there seems to be good evidence that these are a good idea, how do we address the problem of the crime and the social problems that tend to accumulate around those centres?
Perhaps I will start with Dr. Werb.