One Question Still Outstanding On Safe Injection Sites

Maybe Counciller Rae can answer that question; "Where do the drug addicts get the money to buy the drugs they inject in the safety of the SIS?" Is the funding coming from a program similar to one in the City Of Toronto where they budget taxpayer $$$ to supply alchohol to homeless drunks?

Injection 'myths' shot by ministry
Vancouver site; Document issued just days before permit denied
Peter O'Neil
CanWest News Service
Monday, May 28, 2007


OTTAWA - The top policy advisor to Tony Clement, the Minister of Health, ordered federal officials to debunk five "myths" about Vancouver's Safe Injection Site, just before Mr. Clement announced his refusal last year to extend the site's permit.
The facility called Insite opened in 2003 as a safe place for drug addicts to inject.
The "Debunking the Myths" document was delivered to Jo Kennelly, Mr. Clement's senior policy advisor, only days after other Health Canada internal briefing notes and media analysis described the facility's progress and public support in positive terms.
The document obtained by The Vancouver Sun declared there were five widely held but false public views: that safe injection sites are "commonly used" in other countries; they operate "all across Canada;" they are legal; they present "a complete solution" to drug-use harms; and that the SIS site "has the complete support of the community."
Each of the "myths" -- there is no indication which individuals or groups were espousing these views --are all then shot down.