Health committee  We haven't tracked that. I can certainly say that a lot of people I've known over the years, especially in the past couple of years, have passed away. It's completely awful for families, and it's completely avoidable by getting them medical and mental health care, and the treatme

Health committee  Everybody wants to live in a safe, clean environment, and people with mental health issues need extra help. Sometimes some of the services or affordable housing are in one particular area, but yes, I think that giving people options to live in different neighbourhoods would be go

Health committee  I've been saying that from the beginning.

Health committee  InSite has a place upstairs that's called Onsite, which people don't really hear about. People go in and out of there and back onto the streets. The fact is that we just have no place for people to go on demand. I would agree with everybody at the table here that the person who w

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  Yes. It's actually quicker. If you have fentanyl in it, it ignites. The chemistry that's involved just makes the person immediately overdose, so they just drop immediately from smoking. Yes, we're one of two. Surrey is getting one soon. The one that's in Edmonton is a state-of-t

Health committee  No. I think that we need to get more of those. I know that there's the one at St. Paul's. They're having issues with people that are now becoming injection users. Their tolerance goes up, so they want to be overseen because they're having overdoses from smoking. That's not good a

Health committee  Yes, they do.

Health committee  Yes, we do. We have a person who tests the drugs that come in.

Health committee  No, not necessarily. They would just choose to use it. They might use a little bit at a time. There's a lot of avoidance of overdoses just through their knowing how much is in there.

Health committee  Yes. Most of the drugs that are in the Downtown Eastside are fentanyl now.

Health committee  They are fentanyl, laced with fentanyl or a combination. Fentanyl is highly addictive, so if someone's taking.... Right now, what's popular with the kids is Xanax. It's super easy to get. They use it to pill press and they put fentanyl in it. All of a sudden, the kid's addicted

Health committee  It's a very low percentage. It would likely be that they use a smaller amount. If you said, “This is high in fentanyl”, they'd be monitored and they would use a smaller amount at a time. We would advise them.

Health committee  I agree with you. I think that we should be putting the money that we get toward.... Well, I think we don't put enough money in general into this crisis. It hasn't been a priority. It needs to be a priority. Yes, it would be great if we could get some money for treatment and for

Health committee  Yes. It's an overdose prevention site, but it is a safe consumption site. People can use drugs, and we observe them to make sure that if they overdose, they're rapidly responded to. We started it because there were so many overdoses in front and in the alley where I was working.