Thank you, Chair.
Dr. Forchuk, thank you for what you're saying about harm reduction. I'm a physician—I practised emergency medicine for 20 years—and I agree. I am very familiar with the data on harm reduction, particularly with alcohol. We have found managed alcohol programs—they had a number of these and one of them, I believe, is in Ottawa. You get people who are just not responding to any type of treatment. You basically give them access to all the alcohol they want. They actually end up drinking less, because they're not going periods without. They're not going on these binges where they end up in hospital. Their health actually improves, and they are saving the system money. We have found harm reduction in many other spheres as well. All the evidence does show it works, so thank you for being an advocate for that strategy in addiction.
We're talking about how a lot of...this is sort of to do with addictions, but it's also outside of this. As one of the many different strategies for treatment centres for people with problems with substances, with alcohol, there are a lot of centres that have not just housing but housing with in-house treatment programs.
Analogous to this—and I'm not even talking about which substances are involved—is there a greater need not just for veterans' housing but for centres that have housing for veterans as well as all the services that are there in the same centre, so in the same building, like an apartment or something like that, where you have rooms for these homeless veterans to stay, but also the peer support of other veterans? Is there a role for that? Are there any centres like that?
I can open that to anyone.