Health committee  I do. As the coroner reported, we are not measuring this across the country. It is affecting our entire country. I would like us to have a national approach to this, and I think national leadership would be very helpful.

Health committee  I could talk for a long time on that. Some of them are outlined in the written report that we sent in. There are about 25 different pieces of Bill C-2 that I find are barriers. One of the key ones is requirement for opinions from neighbourhoods that are not necessarily based on

Health committee  It is a large and very important part of our conversation. I'm sure that David will talk about this. The challenge is that we need to have immediate actions to prevent people from dying so they can get to that point. You're absolutely right. Sean just said it: nobody grows up wan

Health committee  What you were talking about was the philosophy of InSite itself, the services—

Health committee  I think you have misunderstood his approach. The purpose of InSite is not to tell people they need to get off drugs; it's to help them on that day. However, there's an OnSite detox treatment program that's actually based in the same building. So InSite does have the philosophy th

Health committee  That's a very good question. I'm Dr. Kendall's deputy, and we made this decision in consultation with our colleagues in the coroners service. We have a network of people who have been watching this. The reason we declared an emergency, as this graph shows, is that even though

Health committee  You're absolutely right. As a matter of fact, some people seek out the testing. We've heard that some of the dealers are actually sending people in to have the drugs checked, because they don't want to be giving fentanyl to their cocaine users. Anyway.... I don't think it's an i

Health committee  I would like to see federal enforcement and interdiction strategies around importation of illicit drugs. Anything we can do through CBSA, the Canada Border Services Agency, to try to improve our ability to prevent these from getting in and improving relationships with other count

Health committee  Number one is that these are dangerous things, so don't do them, obviously. As our colleagues mentioned, we recognize that young people are going to try these. The messages are around how to look after each other and how to use naloxone. We have a whole campaign around “Naloxon

Health committee  Some of the other areas that—

Health committee  Yes, I'm on my last one. Some of the other things we're expanding are around drug checking, the ability for people to check their drugs to see if there's fentanyl in them prior to taking them. There are some legislative barriers to those. We are doing monitoring and surveillance

Health committee  Thank you. I'm the deputy provincial health officer, not the deputy minister.

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank for your this opportunity to present the work that British Columbia has done to respond to this tragedy. I have a short presentation that will illustrate some of what Lisa talked about. This response, as our coroner indicated, has been across the h