In the past, my office has made the recommendation, based on the best international scientific evidence available, that the Correctional Service of Canada should implement a prison-based needle exchange program. That recommendation has never been accepted. The issue has been studied by the Correctional Service of Canada as a harm reduction measure or an extension of some of their other harm reduction initiatives, but it hasn't found favour—and that's, as I say, in spite of international scientific evidence. It does pose some operational issues.
The Correctional Service of Canada had a pilot project dealing with safer tattooing practices. I understand the evaluation for that pilot indicated it was effective in preventing the spread of infectious diseases, blood-borne diseases, that arise through needle sharing. But in spite of that evaluation, the decision was made not to extend that pilot project and in fact to shut down those safer tattooing sites.
Those are policy decisions of the Correctional Service. I think there is evidence to suggest there would be reasons to pursue both of those harm reduction initiatives.