Mr. Speaker, I hope that the member's question would mean that all members of the House would support innovative ideas.
One of the things our community wants to see is safe supply. That means dealing with the drug addiction issue as a health care issue and not as a criminal justice issue.
For example, if someone is struggling with an addiction, they would go to see their doctor, and the doctor would prescribe something to address the addiction issues. For whatever drug they would prescribe, individuals would be able to access that medication through pharmacare to manage their addiction. That is what we are talking about in order to save lives.
Insite is a tremendous program that has been working in our community. It is saving lives and it is reducing the spread of diseases, but that alone is not enough. We have the fentanyl crisis, and some 12,000 people have died across this country. It is not just in the Downtown Eastside. It is in all of our communities.
I call on the government to announce a pilot program, at the very minimum. Let us do it in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside with a safe-supply program to save lives. Let us show the rest of the country how this could be done without judgment.