Mr. Speaker, the member opposite mentioned a few of the amazing people who are focusing on how we can be successful in this really big fight against HIV-AIDS and the unfair burden that our aboriginal people are carrying.
Dr. Wood's paper, as the member has said, speaks in terms of the availability of culturally sensitive supports and services and care as well as evidence based results. This speaks again to the problems we are facing when there is a top-down paternalistic attitude and people think they know better than the people who need our help, but there is also the failure to deal with evidence.
Liz Evans was able to tell us that not one death in all of those visits to Insite is an extraordinary success. People can live long enough to have a bit of hope and maybe get some help, but they are still alive, thanks to the Insite program.
I hope that over the next little while we will start to see all of us coming together on evidence rather than ideology and the idea that harm reduction must be part of any drug control program.
I thank the member for the debate tonight. I thank my colleagues from Winnipeg South Centre and Vancouver Centre for their thoughtful interventions.