The last sentence of the quote--and I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hold this back, but I think it's important--said:
These findings were confirmed in prison needle exchange review of the evidence, a 2006 review by the Public Health Agency of Canada undertaken at the request of Correctional Services Canada.
Are you familiar with that report? Okay.
The reason I ask is that we're opposed to drugs in prison, but we have methadone, and methadone is an opiate. We are opposed to sex between inmates in prison, yet we have dental dams and condoms. We are opposed to having paraphernalia in prison, but we supply bleach. This committee saw a rig, a very grotesque homemade piece, that was shared by inmates, passed among the inmates.
I'm just wondering, does it not make sense to go that final step, if drug use is going to happen in prison, to ensure that at the very least we're not spreading the disease? As pointed out by my colleague, it's something that will spill into the general population and become a public health issue as well. Is that not a logical conclusion?