It’s difficult to imagine a more cynical and dangerous response to a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that Ottawa has a constitutional duty to protect Canadians than the Harper government’s Respect for Communities Act announced Thursday.
As Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq was holding a press conference to announce details of the act that sets conditions for new safe injection sites, the Conservative party was emailing its faithful to organize opposition to such facilities.
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As Julio Montaner, director of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, noted, in spite of Insite’s success at saving lives and staunching the spread of blood-borne infections, evidence suggests the injection site has “won the battle but lost the war.”
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