HARPER GETS INVITE TO TOUR SAFE-INJECTION SITE

The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users has invited Prime Minister
Stephen Harper to tour the alleys of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside so
he can see the devastation of drug abuse for himself.

The invitation was issued as advocates continue a campaign to urge
Health Canada to extend the exemption that allows North America's
only safe injection site to operate legally. The exemption expires in
September.

A group of Australian Parliamentarians called on Harper on yesterday
not to close the safe injection site for heroin addicts.