Justice committee  Do you mean point-of-care testing? Rapid testing, it's just not around enough. At least, I don't think it's consistent across the country. It needs to be absolutely accessible and available to people so that individuals who want to get tested right away can get tested right away

Justice committee  There aren't kits available in terms of your take-home testing kits. Some health areas are looking at kits that people can pick up, take and then take that to a lab, but they're still not accessible everywhere and they're not at-home, take-home testing. I think all of them should

Justice committee  Absolutely, both in the aspect of sex workers and in the aspect of drug policy and working with the supervised consumption services. Testing is key. That's an element that's absolutely necessary to allow at the sites, and to ensure treatment. However, treatment becomes difficul

Justice committee  Again, I think the directive is absolutely a step forward and is extremely welcomed and positive. The fact that we haven't reformed so that it actually removes it from the law, from the sexual assault components of the law, is problematic, as is that it's not based on transmissio

Justice committee  I'm in total agreement.

Justice committee  I think it would be fabulous to have that, not only at the federal and provincial level but also the municipal level. We're talking about the police services at the municipal level working to increase education, understanding and developing the right strategies to use to help mit

Justice committee  It really goes back to those initial determinants of health that I mentioned in the presentation, and the issues of racism and all of the other aspects of power differentials. What's really important is that our legislation looks toward changing those health inequities to make

Justice committee  I believe so, yes.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  I'll admit I'm not a lawyer, but it's in the area of the third statement in the component of “lower levels of blameworthiness”, which I definitely have difficulty understanding. I think it makes it difficult, but as a lawyer I can't comment.

Justice committee  Thank you. On behalf of the HIV Network of Edmonton Society—referred to as HIV Edmonton—I would like to thank this committee for asking me to present before you. It is with absolute appreciation that I am a participant in such an important dialogue on the criminalization of non-