Mr. Speaker, the member for St. Paul's mentioned some of the truly remarkable people who have been involved in producing information about the HIV-AIDS crisis in the downtown eastside and elsewhere.
She mentioned Liz Evans for one, who did speak, on Tuesday I believe, here on Parliament Hill, from the Portland Hotel Society, who is very involved in the operation of Insite, a very remarkable organization. She also mentioned people like Dr. Montaner, Dr. Wood, who did the study that we referred to tonight, Dr. Thomas Kerr, who has done many of the studies around Insite, and Dr. Martin Schechter. There are remarkable individuals in the academic and scientific communities, as well as community leaders who have kept the faith in terms of pressing the issue, in terms of the need to abide by workable public policy to look at evidence based results.
At the close of this debate, it is really important to recognize that we should be focusing on sound public policy. If we did that, we could be addressing many of the issues in the downtown eastside.