From a public health standpoint, there are quite a lot of regulations that are at the disposal of public health officials in each province and territory that will allow public health to put sanctions on people who are knowingly spreading communicable disease. TB is probably the most used. There are cases. There are two or three people in British Columbia right now who have sanctions because they have active TB and they were not being treated. From a public health point of view, there are ways to corral them and to make sure they're followed very closely and required to take treatment. There are tools like that in public health, rarely necessary, but TB would be one example where we don't need a criminalization. We don't need to send police out and try to find all the contacts. We just need to work with those people and put them in a situation where they can consistently take their medications.
On May 7th, 2019. See this statement in context.