In terms of British Columbia, one of the things the province has done really well is creating a large number, more than anywhere in Canada, of safe places for people to use at the provincial level, and that's when we've had a supportive provincial government. When we don't have that, in provinces like Alberta and Ontario, then funding is the chokehold against supervised consumption sites, so even though they get approved, if they're not funded, they are not going to be effective. That is a huge issue in terms of the federal role.
In terms of B.C., I think it has been a real mistake to recriminalize possession. It is in fact not the public drug use that has been criminalized, as was announced; it's the possession. That means someone walking to a supervised consumption site is liable to be arrested now, and that was not the case prior to this rollback.
We need some really serious thought about what needs to be criminal and what can be administrative. We need to go back and revisit that.