Health committee  The first thing is more transparency to the public about where those monies are going. Something that may be affecting some of that is that when the new government came in, in Manitoba—I think they're in mid-term now, or just a little past—they announced a major effort to transf

Health committee  No, absolutely not. Again, because there are different approaches in each province and territory, in the Manitoba example, we don't have a provincially approved safe injection site. Some organizations are doing this on their own. They have a room set aside and they try to accomm

Health committee  No.

Health committee  Again, someone mentioned that there's a lack of data in some places. We don't have any numbers about the scale of methamphetamine use in our community. We know it's high. I'm located right downtown, on Higgins Avenue. We have a park beside our centre. We've taken as many as 300

Health committee  It's huge. You see people on the street every day struggling to survive. Some die. It's right in your face. I mean, you can't ignore it.

Health committee  Thank you, Ginette. Very quickly, in 2018 we know that Canada and Manitoba announced a new health transfer agreement. Within the agreement, there was an allocation to the province of approximately $181 million over 10 years for improving mental health and addictions services. At

Health committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and honourable members of the committee. Thank you for inviting us here today. I'm Damon Johnston. I am the current chair of the board of governors of the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba. I will now let Ginette introduce herself.