I appreciate the Minister’s response there. Obviously, however, the work is not working or we wouldn’t have this accelerating rate of crack cocaine addictions that our hospitals are seeing. So additional work is needed on this and perhaps addictions centres are one way to go.

Specifically on the prevention side of things for the HIV and Hep C potential that we have, is the

department going after harm reduction techniques such as has been used in Vancouver? I realize it’s a big city situation, somewhat different, but harm reduction techniques have been demonstrated to be working in this situation and our medical staff obviously think what we’re doing now is not sufficient. Are harm reduction techniques being considered and pursued?