Mr. Chair, this is a very challenging problem. People who are involved in it will say that a multi-pillar approach is needed for us to be able to more effectively respond to the opioid crisis, and that involves institutional change.
As I said in my speech, there are safe injection sites that are opening and there are safe injection kits that are being given. Canadians cannot hold a structure that can take the weight of this problem if they only have a single pillar. There needs to be a proper balancing, and when Conservative voices say that we would like to see further emphasis on the other pillars, I do not think that is being unreasonable. Canadians deserve to know that a complex problem involves deliberation and a nuanced approach so that we can incorporate different ways of thinking to come up with a way to solve this, and that means a multi-pillar approach. We cannot say it is a multi-pillar approach and focus on just one component—