Health Canada eyeing changes to safe-injection site law

The Liberal government is fielding calls from the NDP to scrap the bill.

Hilary Geller, an assistant deputy minister with Health Canada, right, told the House Health Committee that the department has heard concerns about the criteria for establishing a supervised injection site, and is considering potential legislative amendments to the rules. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

October 5, 2016

Health Canada is considering changes to Conservative-era legislation that critics argued made it prohibitively difficult to open new supervised injection sites, according to a senior department bureaucrat. Hilary Geller, an assistant deputy minister with Health Canada, told the House Health Comm...

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