Mr. Speaker, there is no scientific evidence to support the minister's opposition to the Insite program. In fact, the government offered money for additional research but only if the investigators would not release the evidence until after the exemption for the Insite program expired.
Dr. Evan Wood, with the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, has called this, “muzzling researchers”. The University of British Columbia has called the minister's conditions “ethically unacceptable”.
When will the minister stop embarrassing Canada and choose evidence over his ideology?